biblical

CEFRB2

/ˈbɪblɪkəl/

adjective

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adjective
of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible.
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adjective
Extra detail
In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it).

Examples

The biblical Tower of Babel is what architects call a ziggurat.
This is a biblical text.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.
Of or relating to the Bible.

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In context

Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue.
The biblical teaching is that…
biblical morality

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She claws it away with her fingers. Falls heavily on her shoulders. Accepts the congratulations of her teammates, who look like they have just seen a biblical miracle.
2025 July 19, Jonathan Liew, “Ann-Katrin Berger follows up biblical miracle with penalty heroics for Germany”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
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.
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
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall—that was a fate of biblical proportions.
1982, Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, →ISBN
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.
1984, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters

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Origin

adjective

From Medieval Latin biblicus + -al, equivalent to bible + -ical.

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adjective

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The preacher's sermon was filled with blank— references to ancient prophets.

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Origin

adjective

The preacher's sermon was filled with blank references to ancient prophets.