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 […]

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for biblicism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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