Crossword clues for samaritan
samaritan
- Helper of devil eating up one animal
- Memorable provider of roadside aid
- Selfless helper
- Selfless aid offerer
- Lender of a helping hand
- Good -- (helpful sort)
- Good __ (helpful stranger)
- A friend in need
- (Good) helpful person
- A dragon aims to, changing into a very helpful person
- Charitable individual
- I go to a sad man in distress? That could be about right
- He crossed the road again, road most strange
- Helper of parable
- Do-gooder
- Good person in a parable
- A person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble
- "Good" person
- Good one
- Roadside assister
- Good person who helps another in distress
- Man and woman saved by an adviser to desperate people
- Charitable person
- A mantra is stirring for a listener
- A good one stops to help
- I help people in Tasmania run free
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Samaritan \Sa*mar"i*tan\, a. [L. Samaritanus.] Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English, "inhabitant of Samaria," a district of Palestine, from Late Latin Samaritanus, from Greek Samareia (see Samaria). A non-Hebrew race was settled in its cities by the king of Assyria after the removal of the Israelites from the country. They later adopted some Jewish ways, but largely remained apart. Figurative use with reference to the good Samaritan is first recorded 1630s, from Luke x:33. Related: Samaritanism.
Wiktionary
n. a Good Samaritan
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the eastern Mediterranean region, originating from connection with ancient Samaria.
Samaritan may also refer to:
Samaritan is a fictional character in the comic book series Astro City. Created by writer Kurt Busiek and artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross, Samaritan is the premier superhero of the world, much in the vein of Superman and Captain Marvel. Despite his powers, however, the mind of the man called Samaritan is that of a weary and worn time-traveler with little time to himself and no future to return to.
Samaritan is a novel by Richard Price, first published in 2003. It tells the story of a wealthy screenwriter who returns to his impoverished neighborhood in Dempsey, New Jersey, where he begins to help others. His motivations and their ramifications are explored. Throughout the novel, various characters help others, with each good deed having different repercussions.
Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic.
Usage examples of "samaritan".
Samaritan and telling you that you have an obsessed, anti-Catholic, woman-hating criminal in Chickasaw County.
Of course, the Good Samaritan had dropped his garrote down a storm drain by the time the police arrived.
Samaritan, he interprets the host as the Spirit and the two denarii as the Father and Son.
No monuments of Hebrew writing exist which are not posterior even to the Christian era, with the exception of those on the coins of the Maccabees, which are in the ancient or what is termed the Samaritan forms of the Hebrew letters.
Good Samaritan Hospital before being booked into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of vehicular homicide.
The least Forrest could do for the muttonhead was play Good Samaritan with some good advice.
The good Samaritans were in a Toyota Previa, man and woman in the front, two kids in the back.
It was, he thought, the rarest of Samaritans, who had no interest in the private life of its wounded wayfarer.
The Samaritan Pentateuch is very ancient, as is proved by the criticisms of Talmudic writers.
They are still Dacians and Samaritans at dinner, in war, and in friendship, as they call it, but which is often a burden hardly to be borne.
Biblical turn of the conversation that her guardian was strongly moved, Venetia applied herself for the next twenty minutes to the task of soothing her agitation, pointing out to her that they had more reason to liken Damerel to the Good Samaritan than to the wicked, and coaxing her to accept her own determination to go to Aubrey as something as harmless as it was inevitable.
We were two good little Samaritans, lifting out of the ditch the man fallen among thieves.
Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.
The Samaritans were finally subdued by the regular forces of the East: twenty thousand were slain, twenty thousand were sold by the Arabs to the infidels of Persia and India, and the remains of that unhappy nation atoned for the crime of treason by the sin of hypocrisy.
Old John Baggs, the city's best known miser, had suffered a murderous assault in his little cottage upon the outskirts of town, and was even now lying at the point of death in The Samaritan Hospital.