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II ESDRAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does II Esdras mean?
• II ESDRAS (noun)
The noun II ESDRAS has 1 sense:
1. an Apocryphal book of angelic revelations
Familiarity information: II ESDRAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Apocryphal book of angelic revelations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
2 Esdras; II Esdras
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("II Esdras" 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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