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    BEN SIRA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)play

    Synonyms:

    Ben Sira; Ecclesiasticus; Sirach; Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Instance hypernyms:

    book (a major division of a long written composition)

    Holonyms ("Ben Sira" 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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