How to Pronounce Apocrypha
uh-PAH-krih-fuh
Apocrypha is pronounced uh-PAH-krih-fuh: four syllables, stress on the second.
What does Apocrypha mean?
Apocrypha means “hidden”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
What is Apocrypha?
Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from them in the sixteenth century, but which have no claim to be regarded as in any sense parts of the inspired Word. (1.) They are not once quoted by the New Testament writers, who frequently quote from the LXX. Our Lord and his apostles confirmed by their authority the ordinary Jewish canon, which was the same in all respects as we now have it.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.