means A sacred text or body of writings held by a religion to be authoritative, holy, or divinely inspired.

from From Latin scriptura, "a writing," from scribere, "to write" — the same root that gives us scribe, script, and describe. Scribere itself traces back to a sense of scratching or incising marks onto a surface, the ancient act of cutting words into stone, wax, or clay. By the time the word reached English through Old French, it had narrowed to mean the writings, the ones considered holy above all others.