late 14c., neuter plural of Late Latin apocryphus "secret, not approved for public reading," from Greek apokryphos "hidden; obscure," thus "(books) of unknown authorship" [..]

Apocrypha [B] [H] [S]hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great trans [..]

Apocrypha [B] [E] [S] hidden

The term Apocrypha accurately refers to the 14 Old Testament books included in the Vulgate (the Catholic Latin edition of the Bible prepared by Saint Jerome), but which are excluded from the Hebrew ca [..]

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hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from the [..]

(concealed, hidden).+ Old Testament Apocrypha ._The collection of books to which this term is popularly applied includes the following (the order given is that in which they stand in the English versi [..]

Apocrypha. hidden

The collective name given to the collection of fifteen books written generally during the period between the writing of the last books of the Old Testament and those of the New Testament. The word apo [..]

(n) 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) accep [..]

"But what is an Apocrypha?

The biblical books received by the early church as part of the Greek version of the Old Testament

Early religious books that are not accepted as belonging to the Bible (though, in spite of its usually negative connotation,  apocrypha actually means “hidden” or “concealed”).

Oh, what a difference a letter makes. With a capital "A," Apocrypha refers specifically to a group of fourteen Old Testament books that Protestants leave out of the Bible because they aren&# [..]