WORD OF GOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Word of God mean? 

• WORD OF GOD (noun)
  The noun WORD OF GOD has 3 senses:

1. a manifestation of the mind and will of God

2. the sacred writings of the Christian religions

3. the message of the Gospel of Christ

  Familiarity information: WORD OF GOD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORD OF GOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A manifestation of the mind and will of God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("Word of God" is a kind of...):

manifestation (a clear appearance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The sacred writings of the Christian religions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God

Context example:

he went to carry the Word to the heathen

Hypernyms ("Word of God" is a kind of...):

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "Word of God"):

Testament (either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible)

text (a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon)

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)

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Domain member category:

covenant ((Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return)

eisegesis (personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas)

exegesis (an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible))

Gabriel ((Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God)

Noachian deluge; Noah's flood; Noah and the Flood; the Flood ((Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings)

demythologise; demythologize (remove the mythical element from (writings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Word of God"):

family Bible (a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births)

Instance hyponyms:

Vulgate (the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church)

Douay-Rheims Bible; Douay-Rheims Version; Douay Bible; Douay Version; Rheims-Douay Bible; Rheims-Douay Version (an English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars)

Authorized Version; King James Bible; King James Version (an English translation of the Bible published in 1611)

Revised Version (a British revision of the Authorized Version)

New English Bible (a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha)

American Revised Version; American Standard Version (a revised version of the King James Version)

Revised Standard Version (a revision of the American Standard Version)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The message of the Gospel of Christ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Word of God" is a kind of...):

evangel; Gospel; Gospels (the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings)