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WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach mean?
• WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH (noun)
The noun WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH has 1 sense:
1. an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)
Familiarity information: WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Ben Sira; Ecclesiasticus; Sirach; Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach" 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)
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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