Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach

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1.Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach - an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus, SirachApocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same statussapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature - any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom

(sī`rək): see SirachSirach
or Ecclesiasticus
[Lat. from Gr.,=ecclesiastical], book included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament but not included in the Hebrew Bible and placed in the Apocrypha of the Authorized Version and Protestant Bibles since.
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Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach

Related to Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach: Ecclesiasticus, Siracides, Book of Sirach

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Synonyms for Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach

noun an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)

Synonyms

Ben Sira
Ecclesiasticus
Sirach

Related Words

Apocrypha
sapiential book
wisdom book
wisdom literature