Biblical

Definitions: Biblical

Biblical

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible; "biblical names"; "biblical hebrew".

2. In keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people; "biblical styles in writing"; "a beard of biblical proportions"; "biblical costumes".

Date "biblical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Biblical

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Biblical Father of Biblical criticism and exegesis. Origen (185-254). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Biblical

Synonym: scriptural (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Biblical

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Judeo-Christian Revelation	Adjective: scriptural, biblical, sacred, prophetic; evangelical, evangelistic; apostolic, apostolical; inspired, theopneustic, theophneusted, apocalyptic, ecclesiastical, canonical, textuary.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Biblical

English words defined with "biblical": algarroba, antediluvial, antediluvian, Aram ♦ Biblical Aramaic, Biblical Latin, Biblicality, Biblist ♦ canonic, canonical, carob, carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua, contemporise, contemporize ♦ Decalogue ♦ Ficus sycomorus ♦ handed-down, higher criticism, Holofernes ♦ mulberry fig ♦ Ninib, Ninurta ♦ patriarch, Philistia ♦ Sinaitic manuscript, sycamore, sycamore fig, synchronise, synchronize ♦ Ten Commandments, Thebaic, tralatitious, tree of knowledge. (references)

Specialty definitions using "biblical": Chedorlaomer ♦ Vaticanus, Codex. (references)

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Modern Usage: Biblical

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Otherwise, their behavior could incite other women leading to anarchy of biblical proportions. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Does it now? The Biblical limitations of Man's wanderings are set down as being the four corners of the Earth. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) This city is about to face a disaster of biblical proportions. (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) No biblical hell could ever be worse than this state of perpetual inconsequence. (Dangerous Beauty; writing credit: Jeannine Dominy) Wow. Biblical insults. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)
Movie/TV Titles	Ester: A Biblical Episode (1911) Jephtah's Daughter: A Biblical Tragedy (1909) Biblical Scenes (1908) The Emissary: A Biblical Epic (1997)
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Commercial Usage: Biblical

Domain	Title
Books	101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History (reference) Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (reference) Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History (reference) Holman Book of Biblical Charts, Maps, and Reconstructions (reference) The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Proceedings Of The Central States Society Of Biblical Literature And American Schools Oriental Research (reference) Biblical Archaeology Review (reference) Grove Biblical Series (reference) Journal Of Biblical Storytelling (reference) African Journal Of Biblical Studies (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Rachel's Man - A Biblical Romance (reference) Biblical Treasures Of Turkey (reference) Land and Word: A Biblical Journey (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Biblical Graffiti (reference) Johann Kuhnau: Six Sonatas on Biblical Stories (reference) Southern Journey, Vol. 12: Georgia Sea Islands - Biblical Songs And Spirituals (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Biblical

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Familiar Quotations: Biblical

Author	Quotation
Hosea Ballou	Energy, like the Biblical grain of mustard seed will remove mountains.
Matthew Arnold	All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Biblical

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Bulgaria	For example, in November the Kurdzhali municipality refused to issue the Christian Unity Biblical Association a permit for a planned public gathering. (references)
	Nigeria	They indicated that schools in rural areas may not have qualified teachers of Biblical or Christian education classes, and that students in such schools have a right to opt out of Koranic knowledge classes, which otherwise would be required. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Biblical

"Biblical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.63% of the time. "Biblical" is used about 760 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.63%	742	9,161
Noun (proper)	2.23%	17	85,106
Noun (common)	0.13%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	760	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Biblical

Expressions using "biblical": biblical Aramaic ♦ Biblical counseling ♦ biblical Latin ♦ Biblical Nutrition ♦ biblical quotation ♦ biblical scholar. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "biblical": non-biblical, post-biblical.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Biblical

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
biblical name	310	biblical prophets	38
biblical baby name	196	biblical numbers	35
biblical quote	159	biblical commentary	32
biblical archaeology	131	biblical prophet	32
biblical meaning name	95	biblical brother	32
biblical art	91	biblical scripture	31
biblical	82	biblical research	30
biblical map	74	biblical hebrew	30
biblical archaeology review	73	society of biblical literature	29
biblical costume	71	biblical people	28
biblical history	67	biblical research society	27
biblical prophecy	66	biblical concordance	26
biblical counseling	58	biblical study foundation	26
biblical dictionary	56	biblical fasting	26
biblical study	46	biblical coloring page	25
biblical angel	46	biblical group research study	24
biblical picture	46	biblical verse	24
biblical line time	42	biblical recorder	24
biblical character	41	biblical numerology	24
biblical philadelphia university	38	biblical woman	23
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Modern Translations: Biblical

Language		Translations for "biblical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		biblik (scriptural, scripture). (various references)

Arabic		‏توراتي. (various references)

Bulgarian		библейски (scriptural, scripture). (various references)

Chinese		圣经 (bible). (various references)

Czech		biblický (scriptural). (various references)

Danish		bibelsk. (various references)

Dutch		býbels. (various references)

Farsi		مطابق کتاب مقدس , وابسته به کتاب مقدس . (various references)

Finnish		raamatullinen. (various references)

French		biblique. (various references)

Frisian		bibelsk. (various references)

German		biblisch (scriptural). (various references)

Greek		βιβλικόσ (scriptural). (various references)

Hebrew		מקראי (scriptural), ת� 'כי (scriptural). (various references)

Hungarian		bibliai (scriptural). (various references)

Indonesian		alkitabiah. (various references)

Italian		biblico. (various references)

Manx		bibleagh, biblagh. (various references)

Papiamen		biblia, bíbliko. (various references)

Pig Latin		iblicalbay

Portuguese		bíblico (scriptural). (various references)

Romanian		biblic (biblically, scriptural). (various references)

Russian		библейский (scriptural, scripture). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		biblijski (scriptural). (various references)

Spanish		bíblico (scriptural). (various references)

Swedish		biblisk (scriptural). (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับหรือในพระคัม� ีร์ไบเบิ้ล. (various references)

Turkish		incille ilgili. (various references)

Ukranian		біблійний (theological). (various references)

Welsh		Beiblaidd (Bible). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Biblical

Derivations
	Words beginning with "biblical": biblically. (additional references)
	Words ending with "biblical": postbiblical, prebiblical, unbiblical. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Biblical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bibikov, bibliocal, biblioclast, Bilbohall, Bilici, Bilocca, booligal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Biblical"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "biblical" (pronounced bi"blukul)
5	-l u k u l	follicle.
4	-u k u l	aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, anthropological, article, barnacle, biochemical, chemical, Chronicle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, cuticle, diacritical, domical, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, geophysical, grammatical, hierarchical, hypothetical, impractical, maniacal, medical, meteorological, methodical, miracle, monocle, mythical, nautical, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, photochemical, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, quizzical, radical, receptacle, reciprocal, satirical, skeptical, spectacle, tentacle, typical, unequivocal.
3	-k u l	acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, ankle, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, bifocal, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, comical, conical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, pickle, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, sociological, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological.
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Anagrams: Biblical

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-i-i-l-l"
	-1 letter: bacilli.
	-2 letters: liblab.
	-3 letters: alibi, biali, cilia, iliac, ilial, lilac.
	-4 letters: bail, ball, bill, blab, call, ilia, laic.
	-5 letters: ail, alb, all, bal, bib, cab, ill, lab, lac, lib.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-i-i-l-l"
	+2 letters: biblically, unbiblical.
	+3 letters: prebiblical.
	+4 letters: bibliothecal, postbiblical, rabbinically.
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