Illustration: Inside a modest Japanese neighborhood church, a congregation member retrieves a thick, well-used Bible from a wooden pew shelf. Its closed cover bears an embossed cross, and its densely layered thin pages contain several ribbon bookmarks.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

聖せい書しょ

seisho

the Bible

Example sentences

君きみは聖書せいしょに手てをのせて誓ちかうべきだ。
You should swear on the Bible.
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聖書せいしょにこう書かいてある。
The Bible has it written like this.
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彼かれはよく聖書せいしょから引用いんようする。
He often quotes the Bible.
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Kanji in 聖書

聖holy; saintOnセイ・ショウKunひじり
書writeOnショKunかく

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