APOCRYPHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Apocrypha mean? 

• APOCRYPHA (noun)
  The noun APOCRYPHA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: APOCRYPHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APOCRYPHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Apocrypha" is a kind of...):

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "Apocrypha"):

Additions to Esther (an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Esther)

Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children; Book of Susanna; Susanna; Bel and the Dragon (an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel)

Baruch; Book of Baruch (an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch)

Epistle of Jeremiah; Letter of Jeremiah (an Apocryphal book consisting of a letter ascribed to Jeremiah to the Jews in exile in Babylon warning them against idolatry)

Book of Tobit; Tobit (an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries)

Book of Judith; Judith (an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people)

1 Esdras; I Esdra (an Apocryphal book consisting of a compilation from I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra and Nehemiah)

2 Esdras; II Esdras (an Apocryphal book of angelic revelations)

Ben Sira; Ecclesiasticus; Sirach; Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach (an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect))

Wisdom; Wisdom of Solomon (an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC)

1 Maccabees; I Maccabees; 2 Maccabees; II Maccabees (an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus)

Domain member category:

Judith (Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes)

Holofernes ((Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith)

Holonyms ("Apocrypha" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Derivation:

Apocryphal (of or belonging to the Apocrypha)