IDENTITY OF MODERN PHRASEOLOGICAL EXPRESSIONS OF BIBLICAL ETYMOLOGY WITH ORIGINAL TEXTS
The given article is dedicated to the study of English bibleisms from the point of view of their connection and identity with the original biblical texts. The corpus of bibleisms considered in the study is selected from phraseological dictionaries 170 in number. As the basis for carrying out the comparative analysis of modern phraseological units of biblical etymology and their prototypes the King James Bible was taken since vast majority of modern bibleisms go back to this edition. Thus, in the framework of the article the following groups of phraseological units are singled out: biblical phrases arisen from the rethinking of the prototype meaning, phraseological expressions already used metaphorically in the Bible, bibleisms arisen from a biblical plot, phraseological expressions arisen from one and the same biblical verse. Besides the groups mentioned above, we view a number of phraseological locutions which date back to the earliest translations of the Bible into the English language. The article provides examples of the evolution process of some particular bibleisms. Special attention in the article is given to biblical names (which form part of some phraseological expressions) including the regard in the context of the theory of precedence.