EPISTLE OF JEREMIAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Epistle of Jeremiah mean? 

• EPISTLE OF JEREMIAH (noun)
  The noun EPISTLE OF JEREMIAH has 1 sense:

1. an Apocryphal book consisting of a letter ascribed to Jeremiah to the Jews in exile in Babylon warning them against idolatry

  Familiarity information: EPISTLE OF JEREMIAH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPISTLE OF JEREMIAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book consisting of a letter ascribed to Jeremiah to the Jews in exile in Babylon warning them against idolatry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Epistle of Jeremiah; Letter of Jeremiah

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Epistle of Jeremiah" 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)