scripture

1. The sacred writings of the Christian religions (synset 106443410)
   "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"
   associated with:

   • covenant - (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
   • eisegesis - personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas
   • exegesis - an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible)
   • gabriel - (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God
   • noachian deluge, noah and the flood, noah's flood, the flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
   • demythologise, demythologize - remove the mythical element from (writings)
   is a type of: religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing - writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
   subtypes: family bible - a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births
   specific instances:

   • vulgate - the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church
   • 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
   • authorized version, king james bible, king james version - an English translation of the Bible published in 1611
   • revised version - a British revision of the Authorized Version
   • new english bible - a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha
   • american revised version, american standard version - a revised version of the King James Version
   • revised standard version - a revision of the American Standard Version
   has:

   • 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
   • testament - either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible
   • new testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
   • text - a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
   same as: bible, book, christian bible, good book, holy scripture, holy writ, word, word of god
2. Any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group (synset 106442055)
   is a type of: religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing - writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
   subtypes: canon - a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
   same as: sacred scripture

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