English > Bible: 2 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | The sacred writings of the Christian religions. |
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| Synonyms | Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word |
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| Category of | Gabriel | (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God |
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| Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah |
| covenant | (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return |
| demythologize, demythologise | Remove the mythical element from (writings) |
| eisegesis | personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas |
| exegesis | An explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) |
| Instances | American Standard Version, American Revised Version | A revised version of the King James Version |
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| Authorized Version, King James Version, King James Bible | An English translation of the Bible published in 1611 |
| Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Rheims-Douay Bible, Rheims-Douay Version | An English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars |
| New English Bible | A modern English version / version of the Bible and Apocrypha |
| Revised Standard Version | A revision of the American Standard Version |
| Revised Version | A British revision of the Authorized Version |
| Vulgate | The Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century |
| Parts | New Testament | The collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation |
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| Old Testament | The collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people |
| Testament | Either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible |
| text | A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon |
| Narrower | family Bible | A large Bible with pages to record marriages and births |
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| Broader | sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text | writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity |
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| Spanish | Biblia cristiana, biblia, Biblia, el buen libro, La Biblia, la palabra, las escrituras, las sagradas escrituras, Libro |
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| Catalan | biblia, Biblia, bíblia, Bíblia, La Bíblia |
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| Adjectives | biblical | of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible |
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| biblical | in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people |
| postbiblical | subsequent to biblical times |
