"biblical" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈbɪblɪkəl/ Audio: en-us-biblical.ogg [US] Forms: more biblical [comparative], most biblical [superlative]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin biblicus + -al. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|biblicus|al|lang1=ML.}} Medieval Latin biblicus + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} biblical (comparative more biblical, superlative most biblical)
  1. Of or relating to the Bible. Translations (of or relating to the Bible): تَوْرَاتِيّ (tawrātiyy) (Arabic), إنْجِيلِيّ (ʔinjīliyy) (Arabic), bíblicu (Asturian), бібле́йскі (bibljéjski) (Belarusian), біблі́йны (biblíjny) (Belarusian), бібле́йны (bibljéjny) (Belarusian), библе́йски (bibléjski) (Bulgarian), bíblic (Catalan), 聖經的 (Chinese Mandarin), 圣经的 (shèngjīng de) (Chinese Mandarin), biblický (Czech), bibelsk (Danish), Bijbels (Dutch), biblia (Esperanto), bíbilskur (Faroese), raamatullinen (Finnish), biblique (French), bíblico [masculine] (Galician), biblisch (German), βιβλικός (vivlikós) (Greek), מִקְרָאִי (miqra'í) (Hebrew), תָּנָ"כִי (tanachí) [masculine] (Hebrew), bibliai (Hungarian), biblikus (Hungarian), biblico (Italian), 聖書の (seisho no) (alt: せいしょの) (Japanese), 성서의 (seongseoui) (Korean), библиски (bibliski) (Macedonian), bibelsk (Norwegian Bokmål), bibelsk (Norwegian Nynorsk), biblic (Occitan), کتابمقدسی (ketâb-e-moqaddasi) (Persian), biblijny (Polish), bíblico (Portuguese), biblic (Romanian), библе́йский (bibléjskij) (Russian), бѝблӣјскӣ [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), bìblījskī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), biblický (Slovak), biblijski (Slovene), bíblico (Spanish), bibliyahin (Tagalog), біблі́йський (biblíjsʹkyj) (Ukrainian), біблі́йний (biblíjnyj) (Ukrainian), bibik (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-biblical-en-adj-EMBTjkGk Disambiguation of 'of or relating to the Bible': 64 35 0
  2. In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it). Coordinate_terms (by sources of faith): apostolic Translations (in accordance with the teachings of the Bible): bíblicu (Asturian), bijbels (Dutch), Raamatun mukainen (Finnish), raamatullinen (Finnish), biblique (French), bíblico (Portuguese), библе́йский (bibléjskij) (Russian), bíblico (Spanish), bibik (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-biblical-en-adj-uohF5SSo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 79 5 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 17 71 12 Disambiguation of 'by sources of faith': 31 44 25 Disambiguation of 'in accordance with the teachings of the Bible': 39 61 1
  3. (figurative) Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale. Tags: figuratively Translations (very great, exceeding previous records): raamatullinen (Finnish), biblisch (German), bíblico (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-biblical-en-adj-LOhynWcP Disambiguation of 'very great, exceeding previous records': 1 2 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: biblic [archaic], Biblical Hypernyms: scriptural Hyponyms: evangelic, pentateuchal, psalmic, Torahic, New Testament, Old Testament (alt: rarely New Testamental, Old Testamental) [attributive] Derived forms: biblical blue, biblically, biblical studies, extra-biblical, in the biblical sense, know someone in the biblical sense Related terms: biblicism, biblicist Coordinate_terms: conciliar, ex cathedra, Mishnaic, Rabbinic, Talmudic, traditional, Qur'anic, Vedic Coordinate_terms (by religions): Avestan
Disambiguation of 'by religions': 39 45 16

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1984, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters",
          "text": "Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.\nMayor: What do you mean, \"biblical\"?\nDr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.",
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          "ref": "1998 February 22, Walter Kirn, “The Wages of Righteousness”, in The New York Times",
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          "ref": "2023 February 14, Damian Carrington, quoting António Guterres, “Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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}
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      "word": "unbiblical"
    }
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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
    "English terms suffixed with -al",
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    "English terms with audio links",
    "Requests for review of Icelandic translations",
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      "sense": "by sources of faith",
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      "word": "conciliar"
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    {
      "word": "ex cathedra"
    },
    {
      "word": "Mishnaic"
    },
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      "word": "Rabbinic"
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    {
      "word": "Talmudic"
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      "word": "traditional"
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      "sense": "by religions",
      "word": "Avestan"
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      "word": "Qur'anic"
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    {
      "word": "Vedic"
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      "word": "biblical blue"
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    {
      "word": "biblically"
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    {
      "word": "biblical studies"
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      "word": "extra-biblical"
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    },
    {
      "word": "know someone in the biblical sense"
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    }
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      "form": "more biblical",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "most biblical",
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      "word": "scriptural"
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      "word": "evangelic"
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    {
      "word": "pentateuchal"
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    {
      "word": "psalmic"
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    {
      "word": "Torahic"
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    {
      "word": "New Testament"
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    {
      "alt": "rarely New Testamental, Old Testamental",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "word": "biblicism"
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    {
      "word": "biblicist"
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          "text": "Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue.",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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          "text": "The biblical teaching is that[…]",
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        {
          "text": "biblical morality",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 16, Chris McGreal, quoting Mike Pompeo, “Pompeo says Israel has biblical claim to Palestine and is ‘not an occupying nation’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Mike Pompeo, the former US secretary of state, has defended Israel’s decades-long control of the Palestinian territories by claiming that the Jewish state has a biblical claim to the land and is therefore not occupying it.",
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        }
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "of biblical proportions",
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        },
        {
          "text": "with biblical fury",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters",
          "text": "Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.\nMayor: What do you mean, \"biblical\"?\nDr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 February 22, Walter Kirn, “The Wages of Righteousness”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Russell Banks's “Cloudsplitter,” a novel of near-biblical proportions about the abolitionist freedom fighter John Brown, is shaped like an explosive with an exceedingly long and winding fuse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 14, Damian Carrington, quoting António Guterres, “Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
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          "scale"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɪblɪkəl/"
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      "tags": [
        "archaic"
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    },
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      "word": "Biblical"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "tawrātiyy",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "تَوْرَاتِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "word": "إنْجِيلِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
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      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bíblicu"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
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      "word": "бібле́йскі"
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    {
      "code": "be",
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      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "біблі́йны"
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    {
      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "bibljéjny",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "бібле́йны"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bibléjski",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "библе́йски"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bíblic"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "聖經的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shèngjīng de",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "圣经的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblický"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bibelsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "Bijbels"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bíbilskur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "raamatullinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bíblico"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vivlikós",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "βιβλικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "miqra'í",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "מִקְרָאִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
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      "roman": "tanachí",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "תָּנָ\"כִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bibliai"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblikus"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せいしょの",
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      "roman": "seisho no",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "聖書の"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seongseoui",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "성서의"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bibliski",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "библиски"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bibelsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bibelsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblic"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ketâb-e-moqaddasi",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "کتابمقدسی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblijny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bíblico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bibléjskij",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "библе́йский"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "бѝблӣјскӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "bìblījskī"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblický"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "biblijski"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bíblico"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bibliyahin"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "biblíjsʹkyj",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "біблі́йський"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "biblíjnyj",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "біблі́йний"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "of or relating to the Bible",
      "word": "bibik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "bíblicu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "bijbels"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "Raamatun mukainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "raamatullinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "biblique"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "bíblico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bibléjskij",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "библе́йский"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "bíblico"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "in accordance with the teachings of the Bible",
      "word": "bibik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "very great, exceeding previous records",
      "word": "raamatullinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "very great, exceeding previous records",
      "word": "biblisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "very great, exceeding previous records",
      "word": "bíblico"
    }
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}

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