adjective
biblical
of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible
In a sentence
Six example sentences with biblical, each labelled with its topic.
The chapel ceiling crowds four biblical scenes into one vault, from the flood to the parting of the sea.
Art
Melville seeds the novel with biblical names, and readers who miss Ahab and Ishmael lose half the book's echoes.
Literature
Archaeologists dug at Jericho hoping to date the walls against the biblical account of the city's fall.
History
Handel drew every line of the Messiah from biblical text, and the librettist added not one word of his own.
Music
Hollywood's biblical epics of the 1950s filled the screen with chariots and parted seas to lure viewers away from television.
Movies
Kierkegaard built a whole book around one biblical scene, asking what Abraham could have been thinking on the climb up the mountain.
Philosophy
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