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Scripture vs Verse - What's the difference?

scripture | verse |

As nouns the difference between scripture and verse

is that scripture is the Aqdas while verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

As a verb verse is

to compose verses.

scripture

English

(wikipedia Scripture)

Noun

(en proper noun)
  • the Aqdas
  • the Hebrew Tanakh
  • the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible.
  • the Adi Granth
  • the Avesta
  • the Book of Shadows
  • the Raelian Sensual Meditation
  • the Moslem Koran
  • the Poetic Edda
  • The Tripitaka
  • The Veda
  • the religious text of a given religion

    • verse

    English

    Etymology 1

    Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
  • Poetic form in general.
  • One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
  • A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
    • Derived terms
    * blank verse * free verse
    Related terms
    * versification * versify

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (obsolete) To compose verses.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
    • It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
  • To tell in verse, or poetry.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • playing on pipes of corn and versing love

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (vers)
  • to educate about, to teach about.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

    Etymology 3

    Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb *verses .

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.

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