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