| Acts of the Apostles |
the fifth book of the New Testament of the Christian Bible, believed to have been written by Luke, which describes the work of Jesus Christ as it was carried on after his death by his apostles. |
| American Standard Version |
an American revision of the King James Version of the Bible, taken primarily from the earlier Revised Version and published in 1901; American Revised Version. |
| antediluvian |
of the period before the Flood told of in the Bible. [1/4 definitions] |
| anthem |
a sacred song including words from the Bible. [1/2 definitions] |
| Authorized Version |
the English translation of the Bible authorized by King James I and published in England in 1611; King James Bible. |
| Belial |
in the Bible, a personification of evil. |
| Biblical |
(often l.c.) of, pertaining to, or in the Bible. [2 definitions] |
| Biblicist |
a specialist in Bible studies. [2 definitions] |
| bibliomancy |
the making of predictions, answering of questions, or the like, based on the interpretation of a randomly selected passage from a book, esp. the Bible. |
| book |
a major section of a larger written work, esp. that of the Christian Bible. [2/13 definitions] |
| Canaan |
the Promised Land of the Bible, or any land or region of abundance and fulfillment. [1/2 definitions] |
| canon1 |
secular or religious writings of the Bible that have been determined to be authentic or sacred. [1/5 definitions] |
| canonical |
determined to be official or authentic by church authority, as the books of the Bible. [1/3 definitions] |
| Canticle of Canticles |
in the Douay Bible, the Song of Songs; Song of Solomon. |
| commandment |
in the Jewish or Christian Bible, one of the Ten Commandments or laws given to Moses by God. [1/2 definitions] |
| creation science |
a form of creationism that opposes the scientific theory of evolution, holding that the origin of the universe as related in the Bible can be proved scientifically. |
| Douay Bible |
an English translation of the Bible, based on the Vulgate and completed in 1610, that was the officially approved text of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Ecclesiasticus |
a book of instructive proverbs contained in the Douay Bible and the Old Testament Apocrypha. |
| evangelical |
being or relating to a Protestant church that emphasizes the authority of the Bible rather than that of the church as an institution, and the primacy of faith as opposed to works. [1/4 definitions] |
| forbidden fruit |
in the Bible, the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden, which had been forbidden to Adam and Eve by God. [1/2 definitions] |
| fundamentalism |
(sometimes cap.) a movement within Protestant Christianity that accepts the literal truth of the Bible and encourages strict adherence to narrow moral and cultural norms. |