APOCRYPHA

 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)

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

Classified under:

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"):

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)