Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Source: tatoeba (271915)
Scripture
//ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ//
Synonyms for "scripture" (28 found)
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Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
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Translations
55 translations across 35 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- свето писание noun (religious text)
- свето писание noun (any sacred writing or book)
Catalan
1 entries- escriptura noun (any sacred writing or book)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 聖書 /圣书 noun (any sacred writing or book)
Czech
1 entries- posvátná kniha noun (any sacred writing or book)
Esperanto
1 entries- skribo noun (any sacred writing or book)
Estonian
1 entries- pühakiri noun (any sacred writing or book)
Finnish
4 entries- Sana noun (religious text)
- pyhä kirja noun (religious text)
- pyhä kirja noun (any sacred writing or book)
- pyhä kirjoitus noun (any sacred writing or book)
French
1 entries- écriture noun (any sacred writing or book)
German
3 entries- Heilige Schrift noun (religious text)
- Schrift noun (any sacred writing or book)
- heilige Schrift noun (any sacred writing or book)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌼𐌴𐌻 noun (any sacred writing or book)
Greek
1 entries- γραφή noun (any sacred writing or book)
Hebrew
1 entries- כְּתוּבִים noun (any sacred writing or book)
Hindi
1 entries- धर्मग्रंथ noun (any sacred writing or book)
Hungarian
1 entries- szentírás noun (any sacred writing or book)
Icelandic
2 entries- ritningargrein noun (any sacred writing or book)
- ritningin noun (any sacred writing or book)
Indonesian
2 entries- kitab noun (any sacred writing or book)
- kitab suci noun (any sacred writing or book)
Japanese
2 entries- 聖句 noun (religious text)
- 聖句 noun (any sacred writing or book)
Lithuanian
2 entries- raštas noun (religious text)
- šventraštis noun (religious text)
Māori
1 entries- karaipiture noun (any sacred writing or book)
Norman
1 entries- êcrituthe noun (any sacred writing or book)
Old English
1 entries- ǣ noun (any sacred writing or book)
Old Occitan
1 entries- scriptura noun (any sacred writing or book)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یازی noun (any sacred writing or book)
Polish
3 entries- autorytatywna wypowiedź noun (an authoritative statement)
- święta księga noun (any sacred writing or book)
- święte księgi noun (religious text)
Portuguese
2 entries- Escrituras noun (religious text)
- escritura noun (any sacred writing or book)
Punjabi
2 entries- کَتیب noun (any sacred writing or book)
- ਕਤੇਬ noun (any sacred writing or book)
Romanian
1 entries- Sfânta Scriptură noun (religious text)
Russian
4 entries- Писа́ние noun (religious text)
- писа́ние noun (any sacred writing or book)
- свяще́нная кни́га noun (any sacred writing or book)
- свяще́нное писа́ние noun (any sacred writing or book)
Spanish
2 entries- escriptura noun (any sacred writing or book)
- escritura noun (any sacred writing or book)
Tagalog
3 entries- banal na kasulatan noun (any sacred writing or book)
- kasulatan noun (religious text)
- kasulatan noun (any sacred writing or book)
Tocharian B
1 entries- śāstär noun (any sacred writing or book)
Tumbuka
1 entries- malembo noun (religious text)
Turkish
1 entries- yazı noun (any sacred writing or book)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thánh thư noun (any sacred writing or book)
Welsh
1 entries- ysgrythur noun (any sacred writing or book)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.
Source: tatoeba (733854)
He has till now been the apple of your eye; but if thine eye offend you, says Scripture, pluck it out. It is better to enter heaven with one eye than hell with two!
Source: tatoeba (1919872)
The Koran is Islamic scripture.
Source: tatoeba (1934662)
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