Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person skilled in exegesis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who expounds or interprets a literary production, particularly Scripture; one skilled in exegesis; an exegetist.
- noun In Greek antiquity: A leader; guide; teacher; expounder.
- noun In Athens, an interpreter of religious law and regulator of ceremonies. The office was confined to the aristocracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An exegetist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person skilled in
exegesis ; aninterpreter . - verb To
interpret ; to perform anexegesis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts)
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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Of course, this need not worry the modern exegete, but it bothers me.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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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
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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
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Of course, this need not worry the modern exegete, but it bothers me.
Palm Sunday 2009
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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.
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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
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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).
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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.
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