hexaemeron

[ hek-suh-em-uh-ron ]

noun

, Religion.

1. the six days of the Biblical Creation, or a written account of them.
2. a treatise on the six days of the Biblical Creation.

hexaemeron

/ ˌhɛksəˈɛmərɒn /

noun

1. 1. the period of six days in which God created the world
   2. the account of the Creation in Genesis 1

Derived Forms

• ˌhexaˈemeric, adjective

Other Words From

• hex·a·em·er·ic hex·a·hem·er·ic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hexaemeron¹

First recorded in 1585–95; from Late Latin hexaēmeron, from Greek hexaḗmeron “period of six days,” neuter of hexaḗmeros “of six days” (adjective), equivalent to hexa- “six” + (h)ēmér(a) “day” + -os noun suffix; six

Word History and Origins

Origin of hexaemeron¹

C16: via Late Latin from Greek, from hexaēmeros (adj) of six days, from hexa- + hēmera day

Example Sentences

Blount adopted and expanded Hobbes’s arguments against the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch; and, mainly in the words of Burnet’s Archeologiae philosophicae, he asserts the total inconsistency of the Mosaic Hexaemeron with the Copernican theory of the heavens, dwelling with emphasis on the impossibility of admitting the view developed in Genesis, that the earth is the most important part of the universe.

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The most ancient document of the Servian Old Slavic language, is out of the middle of the thirteenth century, viz. the Hexaemeron of Basilius, with a preface by John, exarch of Bulgaria.

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In 1555 Reynard the Fox was translated into Danish from the French, in 1663 the Heimskringla from the Icelandic, but it was in 1641 that Arrebo composed the Hexaemeron or first real Danish epic.

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For Bede, see the Hexaemeron, i, ii, in Migne, tome xci.

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Was thohu wabohu the first condition of the earth, or was it merely a period of division between a previous state of things and creation as established by the Hexaemeron?

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