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exegete - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun Greek antiquity : A leader; guide; teacher; expounder.noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
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noun exegesis ; an interpreter .verb interpret ; to perform an exegesis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek exēgētēs , from exēgeisthai , to interpret; see exegesis.]
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From Ancient Greek ἐξηγητής.
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Examples
Moreover, they should be present to advise and to teach the Word of God in its context and teach the indigenous church leaders to exegete Scriptures.
Jamaal Bell: The Missionary's Role In The Indigenous Church Jamaal Bell 2011
After all, this is no private event, for which it would be sufficient to read the Bible by oneself or even with the aid of an experienced exegete .
Fr. von Balthasar: People "need to recognize the incomparable, the unique character of the Gospel" 2009
Of course, this need not worry the modern exegete , but it bothers me.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
Moreover, they should be present to advise and to teach the Word of God in its context and teach the indigenous church leaders to exegete Scriptures.
Jamaal Bell: The Missionary's Role In The Indigenous Church Jamaal Bell 2011
In this way, Rabanus Maurus became an exegete , philosopher, poet, pastor and man of God.
Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought" 2009
Of course, this need not worry the modern exegete , but it bothers me.
Palm Sunday 2009
After all, this is no private event, for which it would be sufficient to read the Bible by oneself or even with the aid of an experienced exegete .
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009
Mr. Wick, a journalist himself, is alert to the dilemma faced by reporters working inside closed countries: Does one tell the story as one sees it and risk ejection, or does one abide by the censorship and hope that the world can exegete the truth from hints and suggestions?
A Talent for Being There Barton Swaim 2011
In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem: "There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language" (In Ps. 13.1).
Liturgical English and the Hieratic Tradition 2009
He's not some disreputable, anti-social obsessive -- he's a veritable exegete of 9/11 anomalies, as fluent in the jargon of physics as he is in political dialectics.
9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009
sehrgut commented on the word exegete
(v): to perform exegesis
It's got a history I can track at least back to 1874 across multiple fields of acadaemia, and I'm shortly submitting it to the OED.
May 12, 2009