book of job

1. 1.

   a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

   SynonymsJob

   Broaderbook

   Part ofHagiographaOld Testament

Questions about book of job

What does book of job mean?

book of job means "a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply".

What is another word for book of job?

Close synonyms include Job. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is book of job a common word?

book of job is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.