biblical

See also: Biblical

English

Alternative forms

Biblical

Etymology

bible +‎ -ical

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɪblɪkəl/
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Adjective

biblical (comparative more biblical, superlative most biblical)

Of or relating to the Bible.
Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎:
  Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it).
The biblical teaching is that […]
biblical morality
- 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 0261-3077:
  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.
(figurative) Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.
of biblical proportions
with biblical fury
- 1984, Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters:
  Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
  Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
  Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
- 1998 February 22, Walter Kirn, “The Wages of Righteousness”, in The New York Times‎:
  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.
- 2023 February 14, Damian Carrington, quoting António Guterres, “Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns”, in The Guardian‎, ISSN 0261-3077:
  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.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:biblical.

Antonyms

nonbiblical
unbiblical

Hypernyms

scriptural

Hyponyms

evangelic, pentateuchal, psalmic, Torahic
New Testament, Old Testament (attributive, rarely New Testamental, Old Testamental)

Coordinate terms

(by sources of faith) apostolic, conciliar, ex cathedra, Mishnaic, Rabbinic, Talmudic, traditional
(by religions) Avestan, Qur'anic, Vedic

Derived terms

biblical blue
biblically
biblical studies
extra-biblical
in the biblical sense
know someone in the biblical sense

Translations

of or relating to the Bible

Arabic: تَوْرَاتِيّ‎ (ar) (tawrātiyy), إنْجِيلِيّ‎ (ʾinjīliyy)
Belarusian: бібле́йскі (bibljéjski), біблі́йны (biblíjny), бібле́йны (bibljéjny)
Bengali: ইঞ্জীলী (iñjīlī)
Bulgarian: библе́йски (bg) (bibléjski)
Catalan: bíblic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聖經的 (zh), 圣经的 (zh) (shèngjīng de)
Czech: biblický (cs)
Danish: bibelsk
Dutch: bijbels (nl)
Esperanto: biblia
Faroese: bíbilskur
Finnish: raamatullinen (fi)
French: biblique (fr)
Galician: bíblico m
German: biblisch (de)
Greek: βιβλικός (el) (vivlikós)
Hebrew: מִקְרָאִי‎ (miqra'í), תָּנָ"כִי‎ m (tanachí)
Hungarian: bibliai (hu), biblikus (hu)
Italian: biblico (it)
Japanese: 聖書の (ja) (せいしょの, seisho no)
Korean: 성서의 (ko) (seongseoui)
Macedonian: библиски (bibliski)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bibelsk (no)
Nynorsk: bibelsk
Occitan: biblic
Persian: کتاب‌مقدسی‎ (ketâb-e-moqaddasi)
Polish: biblijny (pl)
Portuguese: bíblico (pt)
Romanian: biblic (ro)
Russian: библе́йский (ru) (bibléjskij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бѝблӣјскӣ
Roman: bìblījskī (sh)
Slovak: biblický (sk)
Slovene: biblijski
Spanish: bíblico (es)
Tagalog: bibliyahin
Ukrainian: біблі́йський (uk) (biblíjsʹkyj), біблі́йний (uk) (biblíjnyj)
Volapük: bibik (vo)

in accordance with the teachings of the Bible

Dutch: bijbels (nl)
Finnish: Raamatun mukainen, raamatullinen (fi)
French: biblique (fr)
Portuguese: bíblico (pt)
Russian: библе́йский (ru) (bibléjskij)
Spanish: bíblico (es)
Volapük: bibik (vo)

very great, exceeding previous records

Finnish: raamatullinen (fi)
German: biblisch (de)
Portuguese: bíblico (pt)

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Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} biblíu-
Latin: ^{(please verify)} biblicus