adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to the Bible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
biblical
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbɪblɪkəl/
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CMU ARPABET: B IH1 B L AH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: B IH1 B L IH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- biblical morality
- The biblical teaching is that...
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- of biblical proportions
- with biblical fury
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Alternative letter-case form of biblical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- biblical names
- biblical Hebrew
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scriptural
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 6
in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- biblical styles in writing
- a beard of biblical proportions
- biblical costumes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Medieval Latin biblicus + -al, equivalent to bible + -ical.
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَوْرَاتِيّ (tawrātiyy) — of or relating to the Bible
- Arabic: إنْجِيلِيّ (ʔinjīliyy) — of or relating to the Bible
- Asturian: bíblicu — of or relating to the Bible
- Belarusian: бібле́йскі (bibljéjski) — of or relating to the Bible
- Belarusian: біблі́йны (biblíjny) — of or relating to the Bible
- Belarusian: бібле́йны (bibljéjny) — of or relating to the Bible
- Bulgarian: библе́йски (bibléjski) — of or relating to the Bible
- Catalan: bíblic — of or relating to the Bible
- Chinese Mandarin: 聖經的 /圣经的 (shèngjīng de) — of or relating to the Bible
- Czech: biblický — of or relating to the Bible
- Danish: bibelsk — of or relating to the Bible
- Dutch: Bijbels — of or relating to the Bible
- Esperanto: biblia — of or relating to the Bible
- Faroese: bíbilskur — of or relating to the Bible
- Finnish: raamatullinen — of or relating to the Bible
- French: biblique — of or relating to the Bible
- Galician: bíblico — of or relating to the Bible
- German: biblisch — of or relating to the Bible
- Greek: βιβλικός (vivlikós) — of or relating to the Bible
- Hebrew: מִקְרָאִי (miqra'í) — of or relating to the Bible
- Hebrew: תָּנָ״כִי (tanachí) — of or relating to the Bible
- Hungarian: bibliai — of or relating to the Bible
- Hungarian: biblikus — of or relating to the Bible
- Italian: biblico — of or relating to the Bible
- Japanese: 聖書の (seisho no) — of or relating to the Bible
- Korean: 성서의 (seongseoui) — of or relating to the Bible
- Lithuanian: bibliškas — of or relating to the Bible
- Lithuanian: biblinis — of or relating to the Bible
- Macedonian: библиски (bibliski) — of or relating to the Bible
- Norwegian Bokmål: bibelsk — of or relating to the Bible
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bibelsk — of or relating to the Bible
- Occitan: biblic — of or relating to the Bible
- Persian: کتابمقدسی (ketâb-e-moqaddasi) — of or relating to the Bible
- Polish: biblijny — of or relating to the Bible
- Portuguese: bíblico — of or relating to the Bible
- Romanian: biblic — of or relating to the Bible
- Russian: библе́йский (bibléjskij) — of or relating to the Bible
- Serbo-Croatian: бѝблӣјскӣ — of or relating to the Bible
- Serbo-Croatian: bìblījskī — of or relating to the Bible
- Slovak: biblický — of or relating to the Bible
- Slovene: biblijski — of or relating to the Bible
- Spanish: bíblico — of or relating to the Bible
- Tagalog: bibliyahin — of or relating to the Bible
- Ukrainian: біблі́йський (biblíjsʹkyj) — of or relating to the Bible
- Ukrainian: біблі́йний (biblíjnyj) — of or relating to the Bible
- Volapük: bibik — of or relating to the Bible
- Asturian: bíblicu — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Dutch: bijbels — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Finnish: Raamatun mukainen — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Finnish: raamatullinen — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- French: biblique — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Portuguese: bíblico — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Russian: библе́йский (bibléjskij) — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Spanish: bíblico — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Volapük: bibik — in accordance with the teachings of the Bible
- Finnish: raamatullinen — very great, exceeding previous records
- German: biblisch — very great, exceeding previous records
- Portuguese: bíblico — very great, exceeding previous records
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