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See also: Scripture

English

Chinese colporter selling scriptures in Peking (1902)

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti

Proto-Italic *skreiβō

Latin scrībō

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-

Proto-Indo-European *-reh₂

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Latin -tūra

Latin scrīptūrader.

Middle English scripture

English scripture

From Middle English scripture, from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). By surface analysis, script +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹɪptʃə/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: scrip‧ture

Noun

scripture (countable and uncountable, plural scriptures)

A sacred writing or holy book.
The primary scripture in Zoroastrianism is the Avesta.
- 1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] ‎^[1], 2nd edition, page 4:
  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 […]
- 2001, Leander Keck, Who is Jesus?, →ISBN, page 143:
  It would be quite unwise to deem the whole historical enterprise as wrong-headed and to think that one can revert to the gospels' way of reading scripture, […]
(by extension) An authoritative statement.
(Christianity) A (short) passage or verse from the Bible.
(Hinduism) a Hindu liturgical text

Hyponyms

religious textsedit

Derived terms

scripture cake

Related terms

script

Translations

any sacred writing or book

Bulgarian: свето писание (sveto pisanie)
Catalan: escriptura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聖書 / 圣书 (zh) (shèngshū)
Czech: posvátná kniha f
Esperanto: skribo
Estonian: pühakiri
Finnish: pyhä kirjoitus, pyhä kirja
French: écriture (fr) f
German: Schrift (de) f, heilige Schrift (de) f
Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌻 n (mēl)
Greek: γραφή (el) f (grafí)
Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים (he) m pl (ktuvím)
Hindi: धर्मग्रंथ (hi) (dharmagranth)
Hungarian: szentírás (hu)
Icelandic: ritningin, ritningargrein
Indonesian: kitab suci (id), kitab (id)
Japanese: 聖句 (ja) (せいく, seiku)
Māori: karaipiture
Norman: êcrituthe f
Occitan:
Old Occitan: scriptura
Old English: ǣ f
Polish: święta księga f
Portuguese: escritura (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਕਤੇਬ f pl (kateb)

Shahmukhi: کَتیب f pl (kateb)
Russian: писа́ние (ru) n (pisánije), свяще́нное писа́ние n (svjaščénnoje pisánije), свяще́нная кни́га f (svjaščénnaja kníga)
Spanish: escritura (es) f, escriptura f
Tagalog: kasulatan, banal na kasulatan
Tocharian B: śāstär
Turkish: yazı (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı)
Vietnamese: thánh thư (聖書)
Welsh: ysgrythur f

an authoritative statement

Polish: autorytatywna wypowiedź f

Anagrams

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Latin

Participle

scrīptūre

vocative masculine singular of scrīptūrus

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