Abrahamic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/
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Etymology
Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor. Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ (Abrāā́m)bor. Latin Ābrahāmbor. Old English Abraham Middle English Abraham English Abraham Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Abrahamic From Abraham + -ic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.
Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character.
1896, James S. Kennedy, “Spiritual Development of St. Paul”, in The Methodist review, page 66:[T]he Noachic and Abrahamic churches are connected by Shem, and the other long-lived patriarchs, who existed before the apostasy of Noah's posterity, and survived it
1832, Isaac Cullimore, “Criteria for Determining the Accuracy of Scripture Chronology”, in The Morning watch: or, Quarterly journal on prophecy, and theological review, volume 4:
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(not-comparable, of a religion) Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
Most anthropologists, myself at the forefront, are doubtless incredibly naive about the nature of Christianity and provincial with respect to the depth and riches of Abrahamic-based theory for the analysis of religious phenomena more broadly no less than for philosophy.
2007, Hent De Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, →ISBN, page 123:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all Abrahamic religions.
Christianity, not Islam, was the first of the Abrahamic cults to come to the Sudan.
2009, Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesøy, Tuncay Kardas, The Borders of Islam, →ISBN, page 158:[The messianic] does not belong properly to any Abrahamic religion (even if I may here continue “entre nous” for essential reasons of language and of place, of culture, and of provisional rhetorical and historical strategy of which I will speak later, to give to it names inscribed by the Abrahamic religions).
2005, Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart, quoting Jacques Derrida, Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments, page 121:
Deriveds
Pan-Abrahamic · pre-Abrahamic · Abrahamic religion · anti-Abrahamic
Relateds
Synonyms
Ibrahimic (pertaining to Abraham) · Abrahamitic (pertaining to Abraham) · Semitic (of the family of religions revering Abraham) · Abrahamist (of the family of religions revering Abraham) · Judeo-Christo-Islamic (of the family of religions revering Abraham) · Ibrahimic (of the family of religions revering Abraham) · Abrahamical (pertaining to Abraham)
Translations (32)
cmn 亞伯拉罕宗教 /亚伯拉罕宗教 (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · pt abraâmico (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · hi इब्राहीमी (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · pl Abrahamowy (pertaining to Abraham) · es abrahámico (pertaining to Abraham) · ga Abrahámach (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · ar إبْراهِيمِيّ (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · fr abrahamique (pertaining to Abraham) · he אברהמי (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · cmn 亞伯拉罕諸教 /亚伯拉罕诸教 (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · hi इब्राहीमी (pertaining to Abraham) · fi abrahamilainen (pertaining to Abraham) · he אברהמיות (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · de abrahamitisch (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · hu ábrahámi (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · ca abrahàmic (pertaining to Abraham) · ar إبْراهِيمِيّ (pertaining to Abraham) · ca abrahàmic (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · fi abrahamilainen (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · ro avraamic (pertaining to Abraham) · pt abraâmico (pertaining to Abraham) · ro avraamic (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · pl abrahamiczny (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · es abrahámica (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · ast abrahámicu (pertaining to Abraham) · fr abrahamique (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · he אברהמית (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · ga Abrahámach (pertaining to Abraham) · ast abrahámicu (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · pl abrahamowy (pertaining to Abrahamic religions) · he אברהמי (pertaining to Abraham) · cmn 亞伯拉罕的 /亚伯拉罕的 (pertaining to Abraham)