Maccabees

See also: Maccabées

English edit

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Proper noun edit

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 edit

Translations edit

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 edit

Maccabees

plural of Maccabee