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II MACCABEES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus
Synonyms:
2 Maccabees; II Maccabees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("II Maccabees" is a part of...):
Apocrypha (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 status)
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