Definition of Book of Micah

1. Noun. An Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Micah foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem.

Exact synonyms: Micah, Micheas
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Nebiim, Prophets

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Micah

Book of Genesis
Book of Habakkuk
Book of Haggai
Book of Hosea
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job
Book of Joel
Book of Jonah
Book of Joshua
Book of Judges
Book of Judith
Book of Lamentations
Book of Leviticus
Book of Malachi
Book of Micah (current term)
Book of Mormon
Book of Nahum
Book of Nehemiah
Book of Numbers
Book of Obadiah
Book of Proverbs
Book of Psalms
Book of Revelation
Book of Ruth
Book of Susanna
Book of Tobit
Book of Zachariah
Book of Zephaniah
Book of the Dead

Literary usage of Book of Micah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius August Bewer (1911)
"The Formation of the Book of Micah. Various attempts have been made to trace the growth of the book of Micah, starting from chs. 1-3, its original nucleus. ..."

2. The Book of the Twelve Prophets Commonly Called the Minor by George Adam Smith (1896)
"CHAPTER XXIV THE BOOK OF MIC AH THE Book of Micah lies sixth of the Twelve Prophets in the Hebrew Canon, but in the order of the Septuagint third, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... that " the existing Book of Micah consists only of a collection of excerpts, in some c^se& fragmentary excerpts, from the entire aeries of the prophet's ..."

4. A Commentary on the Book of Job: From a Hebrew Manuscript in the University by William Aldis Wright (1905)
"Like monsters and ostriches ; whose nature it is, as it is written in the book of Micah (i. 8): / will make a wailing like monsters, and a mourning like the ..."

5. A Critical Introduction to the Old Testament by George Buchanan Gray (1913)
"MICAH The book of Micah consists of three well-defined parts, different in character and probably different also in origin, though the substantial unity of ..."

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