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All holy writ synonyms

ho·ly writ
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noun holy writ

  • bible — The Bible is the holy book on which the Jewish and Christian religions are based.
  • book of books — the Bible.
  • king james bible — Authorized Version.
  • good book — the Bible.
  • testament — Law. a will, especially one that relates to the disposition of one's personal property. will2 (def 8).
  • douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • revised standard version — a revision of the Bible, based on the American Standard Version and the King James Version, prepared by American scholars, published in its completed form in 1952. Abbreviation: RSV.
  • septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
  • vulgate — the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d., and used as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • word of godthe, word (def 11).
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