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I ESDRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does I Esdra mean?
• I ESDRA (noun)
The noun I ESDRA has 1 sense:
1. an Apocryphal book consisting of a compilation from I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra and Nehemiah
Familiarity information: I ESDRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Apocryphal book consisting of a compilation from I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra and Nehemiah
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
1 Esdras; I Esdra
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("I Esdra" 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)
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