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BOOK OF PROVERBS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Proverbs mean?
• BOOK OF PROVERBS (noun)
The noun BOOK OF PROVERBS has 1 sense:
1. an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon)
Familiarity information: BOOK OF PROVERBS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Book of Proverbs; Proverbs
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Book of Proverbs" 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)
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)
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