- connected with the Bible; in the Bible
- biblical scholarship/times/scenes
- biblical stories/passages
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- very great; on a large scale
- a thunderstorm of biblical proportions
Idioms
See biblical in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryknow somebody in the biblical sense
- (humorous) to have had sex with somebody
- He had known her—but not in the biblical sense.
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