gammaltestamentlig

Swedish

Adjective

gammaltestamentlig

  1. (biblical) vetero-testamentary
    Hypernym: biblisk
    Coordinate term: nytestamentlig
    • 1929, Frans G. Bengtsson, “Stonewall Jackson”, in Litteratörer och militärer‎[1], Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 14 March 2025, page 148:
      Bibeln studerade han dagligen, med kommentarer och med pennan i hand; en tiondel av sin inkomst anslog han till allmosor; vilodagen firade han med gammaltestamentlig grundlighet.
      The Bible he studied daily, with commentaries and with pen in hand; a tenth of his income he allocated to alms; the day of rest he observed with vetero-testamentary thoroughness.
    • 2024 December 6, “Lukas 1:35”, in Svenska Kärnbibeln: En expanderad översättning‎[2], Sjöbergs förlag, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 14 March 2025:
      "Den helige Ande ska komma över dig, och den Högstes kraft ska överskugga dig (vila över dig som ett moln, [en] gammaltestamentlig bild av Guds närvaro)."
      "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you (hang over you like a cloud, a vetero-testamentary symbol of God's presence)."

Declension

Inflection of gammaltestamentlig
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular gammaltestamentlig — —
neuter singular gammaltestamentligt — —
plural gammaltestamentliga — —
masculine plural2 gammaltestamentlige — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 gammaltestamentlige — —
all gammaltestamentliga — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

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