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 […]

Related terms

• biblicist

Translations

study of the bible

• Polish: biblioznawstwo n, biblistyka (pl) n

a term derived from the Bible

• Polish: biblizm (pl) m

References

• “biblicism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.