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BOOK OF JOB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Job mean?
• BOOK OF JOB (noun)
The noun BOOK OF JOB has 1 sense:
1. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Familiarity information: BOOK OF JOB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Book of Job; Job
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Book of Job" 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)
Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
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