holy book

C611
concept

A holy book is a written text or collection of writings regarded by a religious community as divinely inspired or authoritative in matters of faith, morality, and spiritual practice.

All labels observed (35)

Label Occurrences
prophetic book 21
holy book canonical 14
religious text collection 14

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: holy book
Generated description
A holy book is a written text or collection of writings regarded by a religious community as divinely inspired or authoritative in matters of faith, morality, and spiritual practice.

Instances (124)

Instance Via concept surface
Catechisms in Old Prussian religious text collection
prophet Obadiah
surface form: Book of Obadiah
prophetic book
Tripitaka religious canon
Mahayana sutras Mahayana Buddhist text
Epistles of Wisdom religious text collection
Tibetan Kangyur Buddhist canon
Tiruvaymoli Vaishnava scripture
Tamil Alvar poetry Vaishnava scripture
Svetambara canon religious canon
Oshirase-goto oboe-chō
Gorikai-shū
Sunnah source of Islamic law
Qiyas source of Islamic law
Bible
الوحي الإلهي المنزل على النبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم كلام الله
Kalam-e Saranjam
The Secret of Divine Civilization Bahá'í text
Bayán
Arabic Bayán Bábí scripture
Qayyúmu’l-Asmáʼ Bábí scripture
Surah Fatir QuranicSurah
Etrusca disciplina body of sacred teachings
Book of Micah prophetic book
Avesta religious text collection