"scripture" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/ [General-American], /ˈskɹɪptʃə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-scripture.ogg Forms: scriptures [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English scripture, from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“I write”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scripture}} Middle English scripture, {{der|en|la|scrīptūra||a writing, scripture}} Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} scripture (countable and uncountable, plural scriptures)
  1. A sacred writing or holy book. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (any sacred writing or book): свето писание (sveto pisanie) (Bulgarian), escriptura [feminine] (Catalan), 聖書 (Chinese Mandarin), 圣书 (shèngshū) (Chinese Mandarin), posvátná kniha [feminine] (Czech), skribo (Esperanto), pühakiri (Estonian), pyhä kirjoitus (Finnish), pyhä kirja (Finnish), écriture [feminine] (French), Schrift [feminine] (German), heilige Schrift [feminine] (German), 𐌼𐌴𐌻 (mēl) [neuter] (Gothic), γραφή (grafí) [feminine] (Greek), כְּתוּבִים (ktuvím) [masculine, plural] (Hebrew), धर्मग्रंथ (dharmagranth) (Hindi), szentírás (Hungarian), ritningin (Icelandic), ritningargrein (Icelandic), kitab suci (Indonesian), kitab (Indonesian), 聖句 (seiku) (alt: せいく) (Japanese), karaipiture (Maori), êcrituthe [feminine] (Norman), ǣ [feminine] (Old English), scriptura (Old Occitan), escritura [feminine] (Portuguese), ਕਤੇਬ (kateb) [Gurmukhi, feminine, plural] (Punjabi), کَتیب (kateb) [Shahmukhi, feminine, plural] (Punjabi), писа́ние (pisánije) [neuter] (Russian), свяще́нное писа́ние (svjaščénnoje pisánije) [neuter] (Russian), свяще́нная кни́га (svjaščénnaja kníga) [feminine] (Russian), escritura [feminine] (Spanish), kasulatan (Tagalog), banal na kasulatan (Tagalog), śāstär (Tocharian B), yazı (Turkish), ysgrythur [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. (by extension) An authoritative statement. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: religious text, Bible, Qur'an, Tao Te Ching, Torah, Veda [edit] Derived forms: scripture cake Related terms: script

Inflected forms

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          "text": "In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority[…]",
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      "roman": "sveto pisanie",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "свето писание"
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      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
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      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "écriture"
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      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Schrift"
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      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "he",
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      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
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      "word": "כְּתוּבִים"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "dharmagranth",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "धर्मग्रंथ"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "szentírás"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "ritningin"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "ritningargrein"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "kitab suci"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "kitab"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せいく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "seiku",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "聖句"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "karaipiture"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "êcrituthe"
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    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ǣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pro",
      "lang": "Old Occitan",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "scriptura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escritura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "kateb",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "Gurmukhi",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "ਕਤੇਬ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "kateb",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "Shahmukhi",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "کَتیب"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pisánije",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "писа́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svjaščénnoje pisánije",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "свяще́нное писа́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svjaščénnaja kníga",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "свяще́нная кни́га"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escritura"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "kasulatan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "banal na kasulatan"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "śāstär"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "word": "yazı"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "any sacred writing or book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ysgrythur"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scripture"
}

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