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Definition of Ben sira

1. Noun. An Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect).

Definition of Ben sira

1. Proper noun. (biblical) Ecclesiasticus, a book of the Bible. ¹

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Literary usage of Ben sira

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Theological Studies (1900)
"The authors of Koheleth and Daniel were eminently original thinkers, whereas the mind of Ben-Sira was altogether commonplace, and we should therefore expect ..."

2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1907)
"THE ALPHABET OF ben sira. ECCLESIASTICUS, or the ' Wisdom of ben sira,' ends or ended with an acrostic alphabetic poem on Wisdom, hereinafter called the ..."

3. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs (1908)
"34-37) have proved that the book of Ecclesiastes was known to ben sira and ... Noldeke and McNeile agree that ben sira used Qoheleth in its completed form ..."

4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Crawford Howell Toy (1899)
"This is apparently a scribal addition, taken, perhaps, from some current collection of proverbs (not from Ben-Sira) ; the second and third lines perhaps ..."

5. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1900)
"Secondly, there are places in which Ben-Sira has matter that is very similar to that contained in Wisdom. And in such a case it is reasonable to assign the ..."

6. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"The work of Ben-Sira formed part of the inheritance taken over by the Christian communities ... For 320-sl are cited on his authority from Ben-Sira in Gen. ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"Saadia also quotes as from the ' Wisdom of Eleazar ben Irai ' a passage that is found in our Ben-Sira (321/. ), and the text quoted by him differs from that ..."

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