Definitions for exegete

exegete ex·e·gete

Spelling: [ek-si-jeet]
IPA: /ˈɛk sɪˌdʒit/

Exegete is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in exegete (eeeegtx).

Definitions for exegete

noun

  1. a person skilled in exegesis.

Origin of exegete

1720-30; Greek exēgētḗs guide, director, interpreter, equivalent to exēgē- (see exegesis) + -tēs agent suffix

Examples for exegete

As an exegete and biblical critic no less than as a grammarian he has left his abiding mark.

Both as an exegete and as a typologist he appears as a disciple of the Pharisees.

This, in fact, constitutes his real and permanent distinction as an exegete.

As long as he remained in Spain he was only known as a clever mathematician and astronomer, not as an exegete.

Palmieri was not only a theologian, a moralist and a philosopher, but an exegete.

As an exegete he exercised a powerful, and on the whole a beneficial, influence on theological investigation.

He is ardently supported by Knenen, the exegete, his colleague at Leyden; and by Rauenhoff, the ecclesiastical historian.

Word Value for exegete
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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