Senses
1. Scripture / the Scriptures (sacred writings) — The sacred authoritative writings, referring to the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and, by extension in later NT usage, to apostolic writings recognized as having divine authority. The two clusters split singular (31x: 'the Scripture') from plural (20x: 'the Scriptures'), but both denote the same referent — the inspired written word of God. Translations are perfectly parallel across languages: Spanish 'Escritura/Escrituras,' Hindi 'शास्त्र/शास्त्रों' and 'पवित्रशास्त्र/पवित्रशास्त्रों' (holy scripture/s), Arabic 'الكِتاب/كُتُب' (the Book/books — same root k-t-b), Korean '성경/성경들' (Bible/Bibles), Swahili 'Maandiko/maandiko' (writings — capitalization varies but the word is identical). Singular uses often introduce quotation formulas ('the Scripture says,' John 7:38, Gal 3:8), while plural uses reference the corpus as a whole ('searching the Scriptures,' John 5:39, Acts 17:11). 51×
AR["الكِتابُ","الكِتَابُ","الْكِتَابُ","كِتاب","كِتابَةَ","كِتابَةُ","كِتَابَةٌ","كِتَابَةَ","كِتَابَةُ","كِتَابُ","كِتَابِ"]·ben["শাস্ত্র","শাস্ত্র,","শাস্ত্র?","শাস্ত্রের"]·DE["Schrift"]·EN["Scripture","scripture"]·FR["Écriture"]·heb["כָּתוּב"]·HI["जो","पवित्रशास्त्र","पवित्रशास्त्र-को","लेख","शास्त्र","शास्त्र,"]·ID["Kitab,","Kitab-Suci"]·IT["Scrittura"]·jav["Kitab Suci","Kitab-Suci","Kitab-Suci,","Kitab-Suci?","Serat-Suci","Serat-Suci,"]·KO["성경","성경-으로부터","성경-을","성경-의","성경-이","성경을","성경이"]·PT["Escritura","Escritura,","Escritura?","escritura"]·RU["-Фараону","Писание","Писание,","Писанию,","Писания","всякий","к-"]·ES["Escritura","escritura"]·SW["Andiko","Maandiko","Maandiko,","Maandiko?","andiko","maandiko"]·TR["Yazı","Yazıya","yazı","yazıdan","yazının","yazıyı"]·urd["تحریر","صحیفہ","صحیفے-نے","نوشتہ","نوشتے-کو","کتاب","کلام"]
Matt 21:42, Matt 22:29, Matt 26:54, Matt 26:56, Mark 12:10, Mark 12:24, Mark 14:49, Mark 15:28, Luke 4:21, Luke 24:27, Luke 24:32, Luke 24:45 (+38 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
γρᾰφ-ή, ἡ, representation by means of lines: hence, __I drawing, delineation, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ γραφήν in outline, conjecture in Refs 5th c.BC+; also of painting, γραφῇ κοσμέειν Refs 5th c.BC+; the art of drawing or painting, Refs 5th c.BC+ __I.2 that which is drawn or painted, drawing, picture, ὅσον γραφῇ only in a picture, Refs 5th c.BC+; σπόγγος ὤλεσεν γραφήνRefs 4th c.BC+; also of…