Apocrypha

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noun

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
• Derivationally related forms:
Apocryphal
• Members of this Topic:
Judith, Holofernes
• Hypernyms:
sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text
• Part Holonyms:
Old Testament
• Part Meronyms:
Additions to Esther, Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children, Susanna, Book of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon,
Baruch, Book of Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, Epistle of Jeremiah, Tobit, Book of Tobit,
Judith, Book of Judith, I Esdra, 1 Esdras, II Esdras, 2 Esdras,
Ben Sira, Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom,
I Maccabees, 1 Maccabees, II Maccabees, 2 Maccabees