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BIBLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A book regarded as authoritative in its field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bible" is a kind of...):
enchiridion; handbook; vade mecum (a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The sacred writings of the Christian religions
Example:
he went to carry the Word to the heathen
Synonyms:
Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Bible" is a kind of...):
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Meronyms (parts of "Bible"):
text (a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon)
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Testament (either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible)
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Domain member category:
covenant ((Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return)
eisegesis (personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas)
exegesis (an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible))
Gabriel ((Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God)
Noachian deluge; Noah's flood; Noah and the Flood; the Flood ((Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings)
demythologise; demythologize (remove the mythical element from (writings))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bible"):
family Bible (a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births)
Instance hyponyms:
Vulgate (the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church)
Douay-Rheims Bible; Douay-Rheims Version; Douay Bible; Douay Version; Rheims-Douay Bible; Rheims-Douay Version (an English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars)
Authorized Version; King James Bible; King James Version (an English translation of the Bible published in 1611)
Revised Version (a British revision of the Authorized Version)
New English Bible (a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha)
American Revised Version; American Standard Version (a revised version of the King James Version)
Revised Standard Version (a revision of the American Standard Version)
Derivation:
biblical (of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible)
biblical (in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people)
Context examples:
She put up her spectacles, shut the Bible, and pushed her chair back from the table.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Bibles and Prayer-books seemed scarce articles, but one of the men volunteered to pursue the quest amongst the watch below, returning in a minute with the information that there was none.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It weren't quite a chapel, but it seemed more solemn like; and then, says you, Ben Gunn was short-handed—no chapling, nor so much as a Bible and a flag, you says.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Business now began, the day's Collect was repeated, then certain texts of Scripture were said, and to these succeeded a protracted reading of chapters in the Bible, which lasted an hour.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was amused, a couple of evenings back, by seeing Wolf Larsen reading the Bible, a copy of which, after the futile search for one at the beginning of the voyage, had been found in the dead mate’s sea-chest.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Dick's crossed his luck and spoiled his Bible, and that's about all.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When it subsided, I saw them all drawn up in four semicircles, before four chairs, placed at the four tables; all held books in their hands, and a great book, like a Bible, lay on each table, before the vacant seat.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“A Bible with a bit cut out!” returned Silver derisively.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“I told you,” said he—“I told you you had sp'iled your Bible.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
