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EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS
Dictionary entry overview: What does Epistle to the Philippians mean?
• EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS (noun)
The noun EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS has 1 sense:
1. a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Philippi in Macedonia
Familiarity information: EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Philippi in Macedonia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians; Epistle to the Philippians; Philippians
Instance hypernyms:
Epistle (a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle)
Holonyms ("Epistle to the Philippians" is a part of...):
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
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