one flesh

noun

Etymology

A biblical phrase, found for example in versions of Genesis 2:24 and Mark 10:8.

Definitions

  1. Two people united by marriage.

    • "This is reasonable and natural," returned Pathfinder; ". . . A woman would be likely to follow the man to whom she had plighted faith, and husband and wife are one flesh."
    • Mary: Have not I been the fast friend of your life Since mine began, and it was thought we two Might make one flesh, and cleave unto each other As man and wife?
    • We know Christ's saying of the married that they are one flesh!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for one flesh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA