Samaritan
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- noun
- /səˈmɛrɪtən/
- Literature
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samaritano
- And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare for Him.
- a Good Samaritan
- Samaritans and Jews
And for the Samaritan, mine is thine.
- And for the Samaritan, mine is thine.
Examples
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A Samaritan woman came to draw some water.
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The nearest approach to it is found in the words of Jesus to the Samaritan woman, "God is spirit."
Blog text (7) -
I'm not Jewish, I'm a Samaritan!
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You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship.
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33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was.
Blog text (16) -
Upon the disciple's return, they were surprised to discover Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman.
Blog text (8) -
You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan.
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So when the Samaritans came to him... they begged him to stay with them... and Jesus stayed there two days.
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Will the friends I've made in the religion continue to treat me as Jesus treated the Samaritans, in a kind and Christian manner?
Academic text (2010) -
In the biblical story, the Samaritan helped a traveler who had been attacked by robbers.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Samaritan = Samaria (transparent) = Samarit + an
Formed by the demonymic suffix '-an' from the place name 'Samaria', so the literal meaning 'an inhabitant of Samaria' is directly derivable from the base.
Etymology
Samaritan comes from Samaria, the name of a region in the Bible, so a Samaritan was originally someone 'from Samaria'.