exegesis n 🔊

1. (chiefly religion)
   1. (uncountable) Explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text; also, the academic study of this; (countable) an instance of this.
      1. (by extension, generally) Critical commentary or discussion; (countable) an instance of this.
   2. (obsolete, uncountable) Chiefly of scripture: the action of using a phrase, sentence, etc., to interpret or paraphrase another phrase, sentence, etc.; (countable) a phrase, sentence, etc., used for this purpose; an explanatory note, a gloss.
2. (mathematics, historical) In full numeral exegesis: a procedure formerly used to solve algebraic equations.

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Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 11914 (Papyrus 63) fragment 1 verso John 3, 14-15; 4, 10.jpg

Papyrus 63, a 4th- or 5th-century fragment of a papyrus containing parts of the Gospel of John (chapter 3, verses 14–18 on the left, and 4:9–10 on the right) in Greek with exegesis (sense 1.1) or commentary.[n 1]

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