abrahamic
/eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.48 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.
Example Sentences
- "[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"
- "Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character."
- "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all Abrahamic religions."
- "[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)."
- "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."
- "Christianity, not Islam, was the first of the Abrahamic cults to come to the Sudan."
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.