Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apocrypha

1 sense of apocrypha

Sense 1
Apocrypha -- (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)
       => sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text -- (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)