Scripture

See also: scripture

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“I write”).

Proper noun

Scripture

1. The Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible.
2. The Hebrew Tanakh
3. The Muslim Quran.
4. Any of several other texts considered holy:
   1. the Aqdas
   2. the Adi Granth
   3. the Avesta
   4. the Book of Shadows
   5. the Raelian Sensual Meditation
   6. the Poetic Edda
   7. the Tripitaka
   8. the Veda

Translations

Tanakh — see Tanakh

Bible — see Bible

Koran — see Koran

Edda — see Edda

Noun

Scripture (uncountable)

1. The religious text of a given religion.

Translations

religious text

• Finnish: pyhä kirja, Sana
• Japanese: 聖句 (せいく, seiku)
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• Lithuanian: šventraštis m, raštas m (figuratively)
• Tagalog: kasulatan

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