"seed-faith" meaning in English

See seed-faith in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: In reference to Matthew 17:20: "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you" (KJV). Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} seed-faith (uncountable)
  1. (Christianity) The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Christianity
    Sense id: en-seed-faith-en-noun-CKqr~6Nj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: Christianity

Download JSON data for seed-faith meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Matthew 17:20: \"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you\" (KJV).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "seed-faith (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Christianity",
          "orig": "en:Christianity",
          "parents": [
            "Abrahamism",
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism."
      ],
      "id": "en-seed-faith-en-noun-CKqr~6Nj",
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "blessing",
          "blessing"
        ],
        [
          "God",
          "God"
        ],
        [
          "televangelism",
          "televangelism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity) The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seed-faith"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Matthew 17:20: \"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you\" (KJV).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "seed-faith (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Christianity"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "blessing",
          "blessing"
        ],
        [
          "God",
          "God"
        ],
        [
          "televangelism",
          "televangelism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity) The practice of donating money to religious causes in the belief that one will receive blessings from God in exchange; associated with televangelism."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seed-faith"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.