Meaning

3 senses
  1. Of or relating to the Bible.

    Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue.

    biblisch

    библе́йскийbibléjskij

    біблі́йськийbiblíjsʹkyj, біблі́йнийbiblíjnyj

    of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible

  2. In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it).

    biblical morality

    The biblical teaching is that…

    библе́йскийbibléjskij

  3. (figuratively)Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.

    of biblical proportions

    with biblical fury

    biblisch

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Evangelical services feature passionate worship and biblical preaching.

  2. The two scholars argued for hours about biblical hermeneutics.

  3. She attends an evangelical church that focuses on biblical teachings.

  4. This is a biblical text.

    ruЭто библейский текст. — odexed

  5. In Biblical Hebrew the glottal stop was pronounced clearly, while in Modern Hebrew it's often ignored.

    У давньоєврейській мові гортанна змичка вимовлялася чітко, а в сучасному івриті її часто ігнорують. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
of or relating to the Bible:
Русский
By meaning 1
of or relating to the Bible:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of or relating to the Bible:

Forms

more biblical, most biblical
Comparativemore biblical Lesson
Superlativemost biblical Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible:scriptural

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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