BEN SIRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ben Sira mean? 

• BEN SIRA (noun)
  The noun BEN SIRA has 1 sense:

1. an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)

  Familiarity information: BEN SIRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEN SIRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Ben Sira; Ecclesiasticus; Sirach; Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Ben Sira" 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)

sapiential book; wisdom book; wisdom literature (any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom)