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WISDOM OF SOLOMON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Wisdom of Solomon mean?
• WISDOM OF SOLOMON (noun)
The noun WISDOM OF SOLOMON has 1 sense:
1. an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
Familiarity information: WISDOM OF SOLOMON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Wisdom; Wisdom of Solomon
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Wisdom of Solomon" 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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