Word Meanings - DAVIDIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.

FAMILY
A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
DAVIDIC
Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.
ISRAELITIC; ISRAELITISH
Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
PSALMISTRY
The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.
ISRAELITE
A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.
PSALMIST
A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church. (more info) 1. A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
SUBFAMILY
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
SUPERFAMILY
A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach