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Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject. [R.]

According to the Bible.

A biblical scholar; a biblicist. I. Taylor.

ar science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

Of, pert. to, or designating, modern Hebrew, or Hebrew of later date than the Biblical.

A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge. Noah's ark. (a) (Zoöl.) A marine bivalve shell (Arca Noæ), which somewhat resembles an ark, or ship, in form. (b) A child's toy, consisting of an ark-shaped box containing many different wooden animals.

paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine.

ble, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; -- called also Codex Sinaiticus.

designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version.

Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington.