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priestly

adj
/ˈpɹiːstli/

Etymology

Semantic loan from German priesterlich and Priesterschrift (“Priestly source”, literally “priest document”), so called because of the reconstructed source’s emphasis on cultic issues. See priestly.

  1. inherited from prestly

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to priests.

  2. Having the appearance of or resembling a priest.

  3. A habitational surname from Old English.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Pertaining to the Priestly source (“P”), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch…

      Pertaining to the Priestly source (“P”), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis.

      • Thus we continue to meet the new Priestly expression, “you (they) shall know that I am Yahweh” […]
      • Then, Welch (1939) went the opposite way, asserting that the original layer, written before the end of the exile showed Deuteronomy’s influence and that more Priestly texts were secondary.
      • Noth made the necessary objections to that view and demonstrated that these are additions in the Priestly style which presuppose the bringing together of P and the non-Priestly text in Genesis–Numbers and the combination of Genesis–Joshua.

The neighborhood

Derived

antipriestly, nonpriestly, priestliness, unpriestly

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at priestly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01priestly02priest03clergyperson04minister05ceremonies06ceremony07official08officer09hierarchical

A definitional loop anchored at priestly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at priestly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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