Maccabees

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See also: Maccabées

English

Books of the Maccabees on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Maccabees on Wikisource.Wikisource
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Proper noun

Maccabees

(biblical) One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
Synonym: (abbreviation) Macc.
(history) A Jewish liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in the Land of Israel during the second and first centuries BC.

Derived terms

Translations

book of the Old Testament

Asturian: Macabeos (ast)
Esperanto: Makabeoj pl
French: Maccabées (fr)
German: Makkabäer pl or m
Irish: Macabaeigh m pl
Korean: 마카베오기 (makabe'ogi)
Portuguese: Macabeus (pt) m or m pl
Romanian: Macabei
Spanish: Macabeos m or m pl

Noun

Maccabees

plural of Maccabee

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