Other forms: scriptures
Scripture is the writings a religion holds sacred. Holy scripture, quote scripture, the scriptures say.
Which texts count is decided by a community over time rather than by the texts themselves, and disagreements about that have split religions repeatedly. The Latin simply means a writing, which is a plain name for something held to be anything but plain.
1nounscriptureThe writings a religion holds sacred.
“The priest read a passage of scripture before the service began.”
scripture is a sacred text.
Latin scriptura means a writing, from scribere, to write. Script and scribe come from the same writing.
Latin
scrīptūra
Middle English
scripture
English, today
scripture
Built from
From Middle English scripture, from Latin scrīptūra. From Middle English scripture, from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). by surface analysis, script + -ure.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA