II CHRONICLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does II Chronicles mean? 

• II CHRONICLES (noun)
  The noun II CHRONICLES has 1 sense:

1. the second of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC

  Familiarity information: II CHRONICLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• II CHRONICLES (noun)

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Meaning:

The second of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

2 Chronicles; II Chronicles

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("II Chronicles" is a part of...):

Paralipomenon ((Old Testament) an obsolete name for the Old Testament books of I Chronicles and II Chronicles which were regarded as supplementary to Kings)

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)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)