mabuku
- books, scrolls. Books, scrolls. Written documents or texts, particularly religious or legal manuscripts. In biblical contexts, often refers to sacred scrolls of the law and prophets.
Example: Ningĩ mabuku moothe ma watho magĩtembũrangwo na magĩcinwo na mwaki. (Any scrolls of the law Scrolls of the law : one or more of the first five books of the Old Testament, the traditional law of Israel. that they found they tore up and burned.); Ithuĩ-rĩ tũtibataragio nĩ ndũgũ ta icio tondũ ũteithio witũ nĩ Mabuku marĩa Matheru tũkoragwo namo. (Though we have no need of these things, since we have for our encouragement the holy books that are in our possession, The holy books…in our possession : a reference to “the law, the prophets and other books,” as mentioned in the Prologue to Sirach. 2 Mc 2:14.)