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ADDITIONS TO ESTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Additions to Esther mean? 

ADDITIONS TO ESTHER (noun)
  The noun ADDITIONS TO ESTHER has 1 sense:

1. an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Estherplay

  Familiarity information: ADDITIONS TO ESTHER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ADDITIONS TO ESTHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Esther

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Additions to Esther" is a part of...):

Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)


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