Sentence examples for biblical words from inspiring English sources

Like many biblical words, these were invested with Christian meaning.

A person could get closer to the spirit of what Maddox was saying with different, not necessarily Biblical words.

The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.

Ishmael used set, rational rules and a simple, literal approach to Biblical exposition, and he occasionally upbraided Akiba for the latter's excessive interpretations of superficial Biblical words or phrases.

After visitors pass through the home's front entrance, emblazoned with carved symbols of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, they see a sign near the lobby elevators with biblical words that offer a Jewish rationale for establishing nursing homes.

Passion oratorio texts (dealing with the death of Jesus) of this period often abandon biblical words for a mixture of rhymed paraphrase and lyrical commentary of a more or less sentimental nature.

Most European languages directly borrowed a Biblical word.

The biblical word yetzer, for example, means "plan," that which is formed in human minds.

Theatre-goers using online searches this spring risk religious confusion because the same biblical word is the name both of a new play and a new theatrical venue.

Clinging to the biblical word alone, Karaites regard skullcaps, phylacteries (little leather boxes containing Torah scrolls), matrilineal descent and non-biblical festivals, such as the Festival of Lights, as pagan accretions.

"Tell me, how can fruit be so hypnotic?" Here's where the authors diverge most significantly from the biblical word, as Eve is cast out alone into the world, and the resolutely obedient Adam, whether from wimpiness, rectitude or inertia, decides to stick to his apple-free diet and stay put.