Crossword clues for essene
essene
- Ancient sect
- Early cenobite
- Ancient monk
- Early Christian
- Dead Sea monastic
- Jewish mystic
- Cenobite of ancient Palestine
- Early monk
- Early religious sect member
- Jewish ascetic of yore
- Ancient Jewish sect member
- Early Jewish sect
- Early Jewish ascetic
- From German city, European ascetic type
- Religious follower: inner nature’s not Catholic
- Jewish sectarian's contribution to limitless energy
- Member of an ancient Jewish sect
- Reputed Dead Sea Scrolls writer
- One of the reputed Dead Sea Scrolls authors
- Jewish ascetic
- Hebrew ascetic
- Early sect member
- Early mystic
- Early monastic
- Dead Sea Scrolls preserver, to some
- Certain ancient Jew
- Supposed inhabitant of ancient Qumran
- Strict Sabbath observer of antiquity
- Possible Dead Sea Scrolls writer (hidden in "boundless energy")
- One of the reputed Dead Sea Scrolls writers
- Old ascetic
- Holy scroller?
- Early resident of Qumram
- Disciplined ancient
- Dead Sea Scroll authors, maybe
- Ascetic sect of yore
- Ancient Qumran denizen
- Ancient monastic
- Ancient follower of Mosaic law
- Ancient mystic
- Ancient ascetic of Palestine
- Ancient Qumran inhabitant
- Ancient Palestinian Jew
- Monk of yore
- Sect member during the time of Christ
- Dead Sea Scrolls scribe
- Ascetic of old
- Ancient Qumran dweller
- Sect member around the time of Christ
- Ancient Semite
- Early ascetic
- Early Palestinian cenobite
- Strict Sabbath observer of yore
- Ancient Jewish ascetic
- Group member from the time of Jesus
- Dead Sea Scrolls writer
- Certain Judean
- Dead Sea Scrolls ascetic
- Ancient abstainer
- Early Semite
- Strict Sabbath observer of old
- Second-century B.C. ascetic
- Dead Sea ascetic
- Former Qumran denizen
- Member of a second-century ascetic sect
- Ancient monastic Palestinian
- Ancient Jewish mystic
- First-century mystic
- Member of a Jewish sect
- Ancient Jewish monastic
- Ascetic of yore
- Second-century ascetic
- Palestinian sectarian
- Palestinian sect member
- Ancient native of Qumran
- Mystic of old
- Ancient Palestinian ascetic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Essene \Es*sene"\, n.; pl. Essenes. [Gr. ?, lit., physicians, because they practiced medicine, fr. Chald [=a]say[=a] to heal, cf. Heb. as[=a].] One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, member of a Jewish sect (first recorded 2c. B.C.E.), from Latin, from Greek Essenoi, of disputed etymology, perhaps from Hebrew tzenum "the modest ones," or Hebrew hashaim "the silent ones." Klein suggests Syriac hasen, plural absolute state of hase "pious." Related: Essenes.
Usage examples of "essene".
The followers of Jesus, who were merely Jews embracing a different perspective, formed their own version of the Word, but so did the Carpocratians, the Essenes, the Naassenes, the Gnostics, and a hundred other emerging sects.
She had always let Joshua wear his hair long, like an Essene, saying that he was a Nazarite like Samson.
Had He anything to do with the sects called Essenes, Therapeuts, Gnostics, Nazarites, the Brethren, which existed both before and during His lifetime?
Divine or human, inspired or only a reforming Essene, it must be agreed that His teachings are far nobler, far purer, far less alloyed with error and imperfection, far less of the earth earthly, than those of Socrates, Plato, Seneca, or Mahomet, or any other of the great moralists and Reformers of the world.
The Wandering or Itinerant Jews or Exorcists, who assumed to employ the Sacred Name in exorcising evil spirits, were no doubt Therapeutae or Essenes.
Primitive Truths passed from the Egyptians to the Jews, preserved by the Essenes, 369-l.
As for dispute resolution, see the advice given by Jesus in the Bible for treatment of an offending brother and note the similar Essene method reported in The Wilderness Revolt by Diane Kennedy Pike.