English > Good Book: 1 sense > noun 1, communicationMeaning | The sacred writings of the Christian religions. |
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Synonyms | Bible, Christian Bible, 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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