Berean

American  

[buh-ree-uhn] / bəˈri ən /

adjective

1. History/Historical. of or relating to Beroea, an ancient city in Macedonia.

2. Christianity. characterized by careful and rigorous study of the Bible.

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noun

• Bereans
  plural

1. History/Historical. a native or inhabitant of Beroea, an ancient city in Macedonia.

2. a native or inhabitant of any of the modern towns and cities named after this ancient city.

3. Christianity. a person who studies the Bible carefully and rigorously.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Bereans
  plural

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Example Sentences

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“We are still feeling the pains of the economic reset,” said Stephen Broden, a Black conservative who founded Ebony Berean to fight the culture wars in Black communities.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

Pastor John Payton, a licensed minister with the Berean Fellowship of Churches, is to officiate.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2018

Rebecca Sykes, a 36-year-old mother of five, brought her family to Berean Baptist Church in North Carolina to see the man she and her children learn about during their homeschooling sessions.

From MSNBC ● Oct. 24, 2015

And on Monday only, at 1:30 p.m., the Berean Community Drumline, an organization for teenagers in the Crown Heights neighborhood, will celebrate black history with percussion and dance.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2014

Rivers who is now pastor of the Berean Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various

Every important point in the sermon would be afterward investigated, and, like the noble Bereans, I searched the Scriptures daily, "to see whether those things were so."

From Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings by Robert Graham

When it was rumored a Quaker was come from England, his father proposed to some others to be like the noble Bereans, and hear him before they judged him.

From A Concise Biographical Sketch of William Penn by Charles Evans

And the Bereans were commended as more noble, because they searched the Scriptures daily, to know whether the things preached by the apostles were so.

From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb

I call upon you to be Bereans in architecture, as you are in religion, and to search into these things for yourselves.

From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by John Ruskin

Leaving Timothy and Silas behind him, Paul, accompanied by some faithful Bereans, embarked for Athens,--the centre of philosophy and art, whose wonderful prestige had induced its Roman conquerors to preserve its ancient glories.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord

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