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agrapha

agrapha is the plural of agraphon.

Meaning of agraphon

Noun

agraphon (plural agrapha)

  1. Any of the sayings of Jesus found in various ancient texts but not in the four Gospels.
    • If Crossan is correct, then Jesus Research cannot make genuine and meaningful progress apart from careful study of the agrapha and apocryphal gospels. If Meier is correct, then the potential contribution of the agrapha and apocryphal gospels to Jesus Research is limited.1998, Bruce David Chilton, Craig Alan Evans, Studying the Historical Jesus, →ISBN, page 483
    Synonyms:
    logion

Questions about agrapha

What is agrapha the plural of?
Agrapha is the plural of agraphon.

Words near agrapha in the dictionary

  1. agranulocytes
  2. agranulocytic
  3. agranulocytoses
  4. agranulocytosis
  5. agranulosis
  6. agrapha
  7. agraphesthesia
  8. agraphesthesias
  9. agraphia
  10. agraphias
  11. agraphic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agrapha (page history and authors); agraphon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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