Maccabees

See also: Maccabées

English

Books of the Maccabees on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Maccabees on Wikisource.Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

Proper noun

Maccabees

1. (biblical) One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Macc.

2. (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

• 1 Maccabees
• 2 Maccabees
• Knight of the Maccabees

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

1. plural of Maccabee