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    KETUBIM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scripturesplay

    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 "Ketubim"):

    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 ("Ketubim" is a part of...):

    Hebrew Scripture; Tanach; Tanakh (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)

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