English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "heilig" is:Adjektief:Toegewy of toegewy aan 'n goddelike mag of godsdienstige doel; heilig. Voorbeeld: Die tempel is deur die plaaslike inwoners as 'n heilige plek beskou.Gekenmerk deur vroomheid, vroomheid of eerbied; godsdienstige verering waardig is. Voorbeeld: Hy het 'n heilige lewe gelei, toegewy daaraan om ander te help.Word beskou as verdienstelike respek of toewyding; eerbiedig. Voorbeeld: Die heilige geskrifte word deur baie godsdienste as heilige tekste beskou.Selfstandige naamwoord:'n Heilige persoon of heilige. Voorbeeld: Die pelgrims het tot die heilige gebid vir seëninge.Tussenwerpsel:Gebruik om verbasing, ontsag of verwondering uit te druk. Voorbeeld: Heilige koei! Ek kan my oë nie glo nie!Let wel: Die betekenis van "heilig" kan verskil na gelang van die konteks waarin dit gebruik word, aangesien dit dikwels met godsdienstige of geestelike konnotasies geassosieer word.

Sentence Examples

  1. Seemingly over control of religious sites in the Holy Land, this was not a religious conflict, nor a tyrant removal operation.
  2. He would be a lot more pliable than Philip would ever be, for the son of Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor, was a man who had been destined to rule and prepared for such a role.
  3. He was well enough acquainted with the game to know that holy orders would not bar the cleric from guzzling his ale at twice his own rate.
  4. Used in Christianity to invoke the Holy Spirit during solemn occasions and sacraments, in the ancient healing art of Reiki they help to balance the energies within the body.
  5. As the battle for souls and territory continued, the white bishop of Rome as head of the Holy Roman Empire was seldom tame.
  6. Who would fill the void as the Holy Roman Empire crumbled.
  7. Several of the hooded visages turned to regard us silently as we looked at their holy symbol but turned away soon enough once they were satisfied with whatever it was they saw.
  8. There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been gathered.
  9. His accession to the throne, or rather his usurpation of the sovereignty, a hundred and seventy-one years before the coming of Christ his attempt to plunder the temple of Diana at Ephesus his implacable hostility to the Jews his pollution of the Holy of Holies and his miserable death at Taba, after a tumultuous reign of eleven years, are circumstances of a prominent kind, and therefore more generally noticed by the historians of his time than the impious, dastardly, cruel, silly, and whimsical achievements which make up the sum total of his private life and reputation.
  10. Samuel led us through the ruins, past rotted wooden stables and what may have once been a chapel to the Holy Tenet, to the castle proper.