exegete

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈɛksɪdʒiːt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɛksɪdʒit/

Noun

exegete (plural exegetes)

1. A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter of texts, signs, the words of an oracle, and similar obscure or esoteric sources.
   • 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 94:

     A text that could not speak to the present was dead, and the exegete had a duty to revive it.

Translations

• French: exégète
• German: Exeget, Exegetin
• Italian: esegeta
• Russian: экзегет
• Spanish: exégeta, exegetisa

Verb

exegete (exegetes, present participle exegeting; past and past participle exegeted)

1. (chiefly, religion) To interpret; to perform an exegesis.

Translations

• German: exegesieren (etwas), exegieren (etwas)

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