Scripture

American  

[skrip-cher] / ˈskrɪp tʃər /

noun

1. Also called Holy Scripture.  Also called Holy Scriptures.  Often Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.

2. (often lowercase) any writing or book, especially when of a sacred or religious nature.

3. (sometimes lowercase) a particular passage from the Bible; text.

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Scripture ¹ British  

/ ˈskrɪptʃə /

noun

1. Also called: Holy Scripture.   Holy Writ.   the Scriptures.  Christianity the Old and New Testaments

2. any book or body of writings, esp when regarded as sacred by a particular religious group

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scripture ² British  

/ ˈskrɪptʃə /

noun

1. a sacred, solemn, or authoritative book or piece of writing

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Other Word Forms

• anti-Scripture adjective
• pro-Scripture adjective
• subscripture noun

Etymology

Origin of Scripture

1250–1300; Middle English < Latin scrīptūra writing. See script, -ure

Example Sentences

By 1534, Henry’s bishops were urging the king to authorize a new English translation of the Scriptures to help unify his realm.

From The Wall Street Journal

Scripture reading at 8:30 each morning for all who were in the house was another of the fixed points around which life in the Beje revolved.

From Literature

What Scripture doesn’t command, ad nauseam or otherwise, is the coercion of other people to do those things or to pay for them.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rosenzweig reminded readers that miqra, the Hebrew term for Scripture, means “that which is called” or “that which is read aloud.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“There’s a Scripture,” he said: “Let him without sin—I forget where it is.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• case
• evidence
• experience
• law
• matter