Definition of Scriptural

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible. "Biblical Hebrew"

Exact synonyms: Biblical
Partainyms: Bible, Scripture
Derivative terms: Bible, Scripture

2. Adjective. Written or relating to writing.
Language type: Archaicism, Archaism
Partainyms: Script
Derivative terms: Script

Definition of Scriptural

1. a. Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine.

Definition of Scriptural

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to scripture. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scriptural

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scriptural

scripting
scripting language
scripting languages
scriptless
scriptlet
scriptlets
scriptlike
scriptment
scriptments
scriptoria
scriptorial
scriptorium
scriptoriums
scriptory
scripts
scriptural (current term)
scripturalism
scripturalist
scripturalists
scripturally
scripturalness
scripture
scriptures
scripturist
scriptwriter
scriptwriters
scriptwriting
scrit
scritch
scritched

Literary usage of Scriptural

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Unjustice by Charles Elliott, Benjamin Franklin Tefft (1851)
"scriptural COMMANDS. SLAVERY is contrary to many plain scriptural injunctions or commands; or, in other words, there are duties enjoined in Scripture which ..."

2. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"scriptural Authorities in support of these Views.—Milton's Paradise Lost. ... Examples of Miriam, Jephthah, and David—scriptural Commands to clap the Hands, ..."

3. The Christian Examiner (1847)
"Domestic Slavery considered as a scriptural Institution In a Correspondence between the Rev ... X. An Inquiry into the scriptural ..."

4. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1867)
"HAVING- given in the preceding number of the QUARTERLY an outline view of what we conceive to be the scriptural doctrine concerning the constitution of man, ..."

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