BIBLICAL

[adjective] [not gradable]Biblical means in or relating to the Bible.They named their son Isaac after the biblical character.She has traced the history of the Christian religion from biblical times (= the time in which Jesus was said to have lived) to the present day.In the biblical sense refers to the original meaning of a word as it is used in the first English form of the Bible.'To know' in the biblical sense means to have sex.Simon and I are living together - but not in the biblical sense (= we are not sexual partners).