Letter of Jeremiah

noun

: a letter included at the end of Baruch in the Roman Catholic canon, as a discrete book in the Eastern Orthodox canon, and sometimes as a separate book in the Protestant Apocrypha

—abbreviation Let Jer

called also Epistle of Jeremiah

see Bible Table

Word History

First Known Use

1735, in the meaning defined above

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