Category:English terms calqued from Biblical Hebrew

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. land of the living
  2. sleep with one's fathers
  3. King of Terrors
  4. land of milk and honey
  5. your servant
  6. Garden of Eden
  7. Holy of Holies
  8. lord of the flies
  9. Ten Commandments
  10. lily of the valley
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. scapegoat
  2. lily of the valley
  3. apple of someone's eye
  4. fire and brimstone
  5. exilarch
  6. Ten Commandments
  7. lord of the flies
  8. your servant
  9. land of milk and honey
  10. King of Terrors

English terms that were calqued from Biblical Hebrew, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Biblical Hebrew terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|hbo|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.