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Definition of Scripture
1. Noun. The sacred writings of the Christian religions. "He went to carry the Word to the heathen"
Generic synonyms: Religious Text, Religious Writing, Sacred Text, Sacred Writing
Specialized synonyms: Family Bible
Specialized synonyms: Vulgate, Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-rheims Bible, Douay-rheims Version, Rheims-douay Bible, Rheims-douay Version, Authorized Version, King James Bible, King James Version, Revised Version, New English Bible, American Revised Version, American Standard Version, Revised Standard Version
Terms within: Old Testament, Testament, New Testament, Text
Examples of category: Covenant, Eisegesis, Exegesis, Gabriel, Noachian Deluge, Noah And The Flood, Noah's Flood, The Flood, Demythologise, Demythologize
Derivative terms: Biblical, Biblical, Scriptural
2. Noun. Any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group.
Generic synonyms: Religious Text, Religious Writing, Sacred Text, Sacred Writing
Specialized synonyms: Canon
Definition of Scripture
1. n. Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
Definition of Scripture
1. Noun. the Hebrew Tanakh ¹
2. Noun. the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible. ¹
3. Noun. the Moslem Koran ¹
4. Noun. the Poetic Edda ¹
5. Noun. the religious text of a given religion ¹
6. Noun. A sacred writing or book. ¹
7. Noun. (context: by extension) An authoritative statement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scripture
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scripture
Literary usage of Scripture
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"The things are contained in scripture, as verily her* of, ... tlie Holy Doctora
scripture, and all there institute by God's dune upon them which were ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Apostle St. Peter extends the designation scripture also to та! ... This concept
of scripture is fully upheld by the Christian teaching. ..."
3. Leviathan ; Or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall by Thomas Hobbes, Alfred Rayney Waller (1904)
"And because all Rules of life, of Huly Scrip- which men are in conscience bound
to observe, ''"*• are Laws; the question of the scripture, is the question ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Stephen Langten, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died 1228, divided all the books
of scripture uniformly into chapters, a division which found its way almost ..."
5. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"But those persons betray great folly, who wish it to be demonstrated to infidels
that the scripture is the word of God, which cannot be known without faith. ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"scripture was defined as the collection of standard sources of the Christian ...
Alongside the formula: " scripture is the interpreter of scripture " was ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To him the titles are inspired scripture. Commenting on the title to Ps. li, ...
But to look on them, under all circumstances, as portions of scripture ..."
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