The specific features of the definition “Language Picture of the World” in the exegetics of the Holy Scripture
The research presented in the article deals with one of the essential definitions in the modern studies of the Bible. So far as the term “language picture of the world” is of much use in linguistics, the article pays attention to the linguistic aspects of the term. The author of the paper explains the history of its origin and shows how the definition was developed within the modern approaches of the cognitive linguistics. The functional component of the language picture of the world is of much interest in the article as well. There is a broad paradigm of the explanations of the language picture of the world so the author chooses the essential ones that can be effective for exegetical studies. In the article it claims that the definition is very perspective for Biblical studies because the texts of the Holy Scripture reflect the language picture of the world by means of the interaction of the three main spaces. They are semantic space, semiotic space and conceptual space which are specific in themselves and which can be analyzed with applied linguistic methods. As an example, the miracle of the healing of the leper performed by Jesus is analyzed in this research.