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"SCRIPTURES" is a plural of: scripture. |
Date "SCRIPTURES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Scriptures (See Seven Bibles .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Arguments about the authenticity of various scriptures and about details of interpretation are often a pretext for schism.
Terms for scriptures of various religions
(This is an informal list, so there may be some overlap of terms here):
Bahá'í Faith
Judaism
See also Gnosticism, Ecumenical council
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scriptures."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judeo-Christian Revelation | Word, Word of God; Scripture; the Scriptures, the Bible; Holy Writ, Holy Scriptures; inspired writings, Gospel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SCRIPTURES |
| English words defined with "SCRIPTURES": Alcoran, Alkoran, Anagogics, Antiscriptural ♦ Biblicist ♦ Elohim ♦ Hagiographa, Hare Krishna, Hermeneutical, Hexapla, Holy Writ, Hutchunsonian ♦ International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Isagogics, ISKCON, Itala ♦ Karaite ♦ Laws, lower criticism ♦ Masora ♦ Nuns of the Word Incarnate ♦ Pentateuch, Postillator, Preceptive, Prophets ♦ Scripturalism, Scripturalist, Scripturist, Stich, Swedenborgian ♦ Targum, Textuary, The heathen, The Word, To lift up, To make account, Torah, Traditionary, Traditor ♦ Writings. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SCRIPTURES": Alexandrian Codex ♦ Bible-carrier ♦ Eunice, Everlasting, Except ♦ Hadith, Haply, Happily ♦ INADMISSIBLE ♦ Karaites, KORAN ♦ Paulicians ♦ Shaddai. (references) |
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Screenplays | There is nothing in the Scriptures to say that he did. (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Boy reading scriptures to his bedridden mother]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Reading the scriptures. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Reading the scriptures is an uplifting experience. |
Desiderius Erasmus | It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. |
John Flavel | The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. |
Sir Isaac Newton | Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The minister stood, white and speechless, with one hand on the Hebrew Scriptures, and the other spread upon his breast. |
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Civil Liberties | Burma | State-owned newspapers routinely featured, as front-page banner slogans, quotations from the Buddhist scriptures. (references) |
Vietnam | Many Buddhist sacred scriptures, Bibles, and other religious texts and publications are printed by government-sanctioned organizations and are distributed openly. (references) | |
Korea | There has been a limited revival of Buddhism with the translation and publication of Buddhist scriptures that had been carved on 80,000 wooden blocks and kept at an historic temple. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Dobson | Well, I believe that, again, rather literal interpretation of scripture, I don't have any basis for what I believe, other than the inspired scriptures. And I believe that, not just by what you do, but by dying without forgiveness. |
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| "SCRIPTURES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.46% of the time. "SCRIPTURES" is used about 276 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.46% | 269 | 17,948 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.17% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 276 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SCRIPTURES": Canonical Scriptures ♦ holy scriptures ♦ the holy scriptures ♦ the scriptures. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SCRIPTURES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | الكتب المقدسة (holy writ). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | "文 (scripture), "典 (classics). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | raamattu (the Bible, the Scriptures). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | βίβλοσ (bible, holy scriptures, paper), άγια γραφή (bible, holy scriptures, holy writ, scripture). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | ת 'ך (bible, old testament, the holy scriptures). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szentírás (bible, divine book, good book, holy scripture, holy writ, sacred writ, scripture, word). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | scrittura (accounts, books, contract, document, handwriting, parol, scripture, writing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 聖書 (Bible), 聖典 , 経典 (Bible, sacred books, sutras), 教典 (canon, teaching guide). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうて" (Bible, canon, sacred books, sutras, teaching guide), せいしょ (Bible, clean copy, government-issued report, height of summer, printing, square characters), せいて" (blue sky, established rites, fine weather, grand ceremony, law code), けいて" (Bible, criminal law books, sacred books, sutras). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | ny scriptyryn (the scriptures), Goo Yee (The Scriptures). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipturesscray kutsal kitap (bible, holy scripture, holy writ, scripture, the scriptures, the word). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 54 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PwV oun plhrwqwsin ai grafai oti outwV dei genesqai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quomodo ergo implebuntur scripturae quia sic oportet fieri |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hu magen beon gefylde þa halgengewrite. þe be me awritene synde. for-ðanþus hit byrað to beonne. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Hou thanne schulen the scriptures be fulfilled? for so it bihoueth to be doon. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But how then shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be? |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 54 |
| Cebuano | Apan unsaon na man unya pagkatuman sa kasulatan, nga sa ingon niini mahitabo gayud kini?" |
| Chinese | 若 是 這 樣 、 " 上 所 說 、 事 情 必 如 此 的 話 、 怎 麼 應 驗 呢 。 |
| Croatian | No kako bi se onda ispunila Pisma da tako mora biti?" |
| Danish | Hvorledes skulde da Skrifterne opfyldes, at det bør gå således til?" |
| Dutch | Hoe zouden dan de Schriften vervuld worden, die zeggen, dat het alzo geschieden moet? |
| Finnish | Mutta kuinka silloin kävisivät toteen kirjoitukset, jotka sanovat, että näin pitää tapahtuman?" |
| French | Comment donc s`accompliraient les Écritures, d`après lesquelles il doit en être ainsi? |
| German | Wie würde aber die Schrift erfüllet? Es muß also gehen. |
| Haitian Creole | Men lè sa a, ki jan sa ki ekri nan Liv la ta ka rive vre? Paske Liv la di: Se konsa pou sa pase. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi kalau begitu, mana mungkin terjadi seperti yang sudah dinubuatkan dalam Alkitab bahwa memang harus terjadi seperti yang sekarang ini?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jikalau begitu, bagaimanakah dapat disampaikan isi Alkitab yang mengatakan, bahwa tak dapat tiada akan jadi demikian?" |
| Italian | Ma come allora si adempirebbero le Scritture, secondo le quali così deve avvenire?». |
| Latvian | Kâ tad lai izpildîtos Raksti, ka tam tâ jânotiek? |
| Manx Gaelic | Agh kys eisht vees ny scriptyryn er nyn gooilleeney, dy nee shoh myr te dy ve? |
| Maori | Nei ra, ma te aha ka rite ai ta nga karaipiture, ara ko tenei kia meatia? |
| Norwegian | Hvorledes skulde da skriftene opfylles, at så må skje? |
| Portuguese | Como, pois, se cumpririam as Escrituras, que dizem que assim convém que aconteça? |
| Rumanian | Dar cum se vor kmplini Scripturile, cari zic cq awa trebuie sq se kntkmple?`` |
| Russian | ЛБЛ ЦЕ У'Х"ХФУС рЙУБОЙС, ЮФП ФБЛ "ПМЦОП 'ЩФШ? |
| Shuar | Tura nuna Túramtainkia Yus-Chichamnum tana nu uminkiachainti" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Lakini yatatimiaje Maandiko Matakatifu yasemayo kwamba ndivyo inavyopaswa kuwa?" |
| Swedish | Men huru bleve då skrifterna fullbordade, som säga att så måste ske?" |
| Ukrainian | Але як ма" збутись Писання, що так статися мусить? |
| Uma | Aga ane ta'ewa-ra to mpohoko' -a toi-e, uma mpai' madupa' lolita to te'uki' hi rala Buku Tomoroli' owi to mpo'uli' hawe'ea toe lau kana majadi' hi Aku'." |
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Misspellings | |
"SCRIPTURES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ascriptives, Cryptoses, scriptor, scriptores, scriptture, Scriptura. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SCRIPTURES" (pronounced skri"pkherz) |
| 4 | -p kh er z | captures, ruptures, sculptures. |
| 3 | -kh er z | adventures, architectures, benchers, bleachers, butchers, caricatures, catchers, conjectures, creatures, crunchers, cultures, debentures, dentures, departures, dispatchers, divestitures, expenditures, features, fixtures, forfeitures, fractures, futures, gestures, indentures, infrastructures, junctures, launchers, lectures, legislatures, manufactures, marchers, miniatures, misadventures, mixtures, natures, nurtures, pastures, pictures, pinchers, pitchers, poachers, postures, preachers, punctures, quenchers, ranchers, researchers, restructures, schoolteachers, searchers, signatures, snatchers, stretchers, strictures, structures, subcultures, superstructures, sutures, switchers, teachers, temperatures, textures, tinctures, tortures, ventures, vouchers, vultures, watchers. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-p-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: piecrusts, rescripts, scripters, scripture, spruciest. | |
-2 letters: citruses, crispers, crispest, cruisers, crustier, cuprites, curtsies, pictures, piecrust, pursiest, recruits, rescript, rictuses, scripter, scurries, sprucest, sprucier, spurries, stirrups, stripers, surprise, uprisers. | |
-3 letters: cesspit, crisper, cruiser, cruises, crusets, cuprite, curites, curries, cursers, cutises, esprits, icterus, ictuses, irrupts, percuss, persist, picture, precuts, pricers, priests, prussic, purists, pursers, pursier. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-p-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: superscript. | |
+2 letters: superscripts. | |
+3 letters: incorruptness. | |
+4 letters: countersnipers, multiprocessor, particularises, superscription, supersymmetric. | |
+5 letters: incorruptnesses, multiprocessors, perfunctoriness, superscriptions, ultraprecisions. | |
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