biblicism

English

Examples (a term derived from the Bible)
  • alpha and omega
  • salt of the earth

Etymology

Compare French biblicisme. Equivalent to biblical + -ism.

Noun

biblicism (usually uncountable, plural biblicisms)

  1. Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
  2. A term derived from the Bible
    • 1995, Helmut Koester, John H Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclisiastical History Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 113:
      Such biblicisms — ultimately Hebraisms, since they derive from the Hebrew Bible — can still be found in later products of ancient Christian literature, since the Greek Bible of Hellenistic Judaism remained the Bible of the Christians []

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