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12 May 2025, 2:33 pm

What the heck does that even mean

Because it doesn't mean anything to me


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12 May 2025, 2:45 pm

It just means relating to the bible in some way. It isn't much more complicated than that.



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12 May 2025, 2:46 pm

Oh right
I was thinking it was something more than that


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12 May 2025, 2:51 pm

babybird wrote:
Oh right
I was thinking it was something more than that


Sometimes there is implied grandiosity or significance with the word biblical when it is used in certain contexts. For example, the sentence "this was an event of biblical proportions" would imply the bible was significant.

Or it can just be used in a simple sentence such as "in biblical times, things were different."



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12 May 2025, 2:54 pm

It's an idiom. If you say you know someone 'in the Biblical sense' it means you've had sex with them.


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12 May 2025, 2:57 pm

^ I haven't heard of the word used that way. But I have heard of it being used as an adjective, often.



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12 May 2025, 3:06 pm

DuckHairback wrote:
It's an idiom. If you say you know someone 'in the Biblical sense' it means you've had sex with them.


This.

It almost always shorthand for 'knowing someone in the biblical sense' which is to say, having had sex with them.


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12 May 2025, 3:08 pm

Well, there you go bb, it is an idiom also. :lol:



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12 May 2025, 3:11 pm

Oh right

Maybe I should ask the moderator to move it to the adult section


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12 May 2025, 3:12 pm

Yeah, CF might not take kindly to this kind of biblical talk.



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12 May 2025, 3:14 pm

I still don't get what the bible has to do with knowing someone in a sexual way but that's bibles for you I suppose


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12 May 2025, 3:16 pm

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I still don't get what the bible has to do with knowing someone in a sexual way but that's bibles for you I suppose


Because the verb 'to know' is repeatedly used in the bible as a euphemism for having had sexual relations.


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12 May 2025, 3:17 pm

Oh right

I'm gonna start using that


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12 May 2025, 3:19 pm

^ Yeah, they are right (and they know it) :P

I'm surprised that FXE bothers to know anything about the bible, but they do seem to know a lot of things, even though they are a heathen. :lol:



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12 May 2025, 3:20 pm

Now I think about it, I'm not sure it can be classed as an idiom.

The bible literally uses the verb 'to know' to mean 'have sex with'. As in, "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain..." and so on. So that's a euphemism, really. To know in the biblical sense isn't so opaque in that context.

But the euphemism has fallen out of common usage so maybe it can now be classed as an idiom.


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12 May 2025, 3:21 pm

I'm not a heathen but I know very little about the bible


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