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essenes

Alternative clues for the word essenes

Contemporaries of the Sadducees
Reputed Dead Sea Scrolls transcribers
Ancient ascetics
Dead Sea Scrolls preservers
Old Judaic sect
Ascetics of yore
Monastics of yore
Dead Sea Scrolls people
Group in biblical history

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Essene \Es*sene"\, n.; pl. Essenes . [Gr. ?, lit., physicians, because they practiced medicine, fr. Chald [=a]say[=a] to heal, cf. Heb. as[=a].] One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.