新約聖書

新約聖書

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	約	聖	書
しん Grade: 2	やく Grade: 4	せい Grade: 6	しょ Grade: 2
kan’on

Etymology

新 (shin-, “neo-; new”) +‎ 約 (yaku, “contract”) +‎ 聖書 (Seisho, “Bible”)

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) しんやくせ​ーしょ [shìń'yákúséꜜèshò] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕĩɰ̃ja̠kɯ̟̊ᵝse̞ːɕo̞]

Proper noun

新約聖書 (hiragana しんやくせいしょ, rōmaji Shin'yaku Seisho)

1. the New Testament
   • 1996 June 15 [Oct 10 1995], Narita, Minako, “ＳＣＥＮＥ.１　ミカエルという名なの生いき物もの [SCENE.1 A Living Namesake of Archangel Michael]”, in ＮＡＴＵＲＡＬナチュラル, volume 1 (fiction), 3rd edition, Tokyo: Hakusensha, →ISBN, page 100:

     ミカエル（Ｍｉｃｈａｅｌ）
     ユダヤ教 (きょう)・キリスト教 (きょう)・イスラム教 (きょう)の天 (てん)使 (し)の名 (な)。旧 (きゅう)約 (やく)聖 (せい)書 (しょ)ではイスラエルの守 (しゅ)護 (ご)天 (てん)使 (し)とされ、新 (しん)約 (やく)聖 (せい)書 (しょ)ではサタンとの闘 (たたか)いを指 (し)揮 (き)する
     その役 (やく)割 (わり)から武 (ぶ)装 (そう)した青 (せい)年 (ねん)の姿 (すがた)をとって描 (ねが)かれることが多 (おお)い

     Mikaeru (Michael)
     Yudaya-kyō, Kirisuto-kyō, Isuramu-kyō no tenshi no na. Kyūyaku Seisho de wa Isuraeru no Shugo Tenshi to sare, Shin’yaku Seisho de wa Satan to no tatakai o shikisuru
     Sono yakuwari kara busōshita seinen no sugata o totte negakareru koto ga ōi

     Michael
     The name of an angel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is regarded as the Guardian Angel of Israel as per the Old Testament, and he is said to have commanded the forces against Satan as per the New Testament
     As such, he is commonly depicted as an armed young man

See also

• 旧 (きゅう)約 (やく)聖 (せい)書 (しょ) (Kyūyaku Seisho, “Old Testament”)

References

1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.