Ulfilas

[ uhl-fi-luhs ]

noun

1. a.d. c311–c382, Christian bishop to the Goths: translated Bible into the Gothic language.

Ulfilas

/ ˈʊlfɪˌlæs; ˈʊlfɪlə /

noun

1. Ulfilas?311?382MGothicRELIGION: clergymanWRITING: translator ?311–?382 ad , Christian bishop of the Goths who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic

Example Sentences

Its proper meaning is “sacrifice,” and thus the word hunsl appears in Ulfilas’ Gothic version of Matt. ix.

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Bishop Ulfilas in his old Gothic translation of the Scriptures used the word "hansa" to designate the mob of soldiers and servants of the High Priest who came to take Christ prisoner in the Garden.

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C. But, so far as I am aware, Bishop Ulfilas already wrote German prose, which must therefore be fifteen hundred years old.

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One of the earliest Gothic converts, the good Bishop Ulfilas—the first bishop of German blood that was ever consecrated—had rendered into their idiom the New Testament and most of the Old.

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There was a Gothic translation of the Bible, which is supposed to have been made in the fourth century by Ulfilas.

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