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HAGIOGRAPHA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
Synonyms:
Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Meronyms (parts of "Hagiographa"):
Book of Ruth; Ruth (a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died)
1 Chronicles; I Chronicles (the first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC)
2 Chronicles; II Chronicles (the second of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC)
Book of Ezra; Ezra (an Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity)
Book of Nehemiah; Nehemiah (an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity)
Book of Esther; Esther (an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre)
Book of Job; Job (a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply)
Book of Psalms; Psalms (an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalms)
Book of Proverbs; Proverbs (an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon))
Book of Ecclesiastes; Ecclesiastes (an Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life; is traditionally attributed to Solomon but probably was written about 250 BC)
Canticle of Canticles; Canticles; Song of Solomon; Song of Songs (an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later)
Book of Lamentations; Lamentations (an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah)
Book of Daniel; Book of the Prophet Daniel; Daniel (an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar)
Holonyms ("Hagiographa" is a part of...):
Hebrew Scripture; Tanach; Tanakh (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)
