单词 | great i am |
释义 | > as lemmasgreat I am I AM n. [originally after biblical usage (Exodus 3:14); quot. 1539 translates Hebrew: 'ehyeh 'ăšer 'ehyeh I am that I am; 'ehyeh šĕlāḥnī 'ălēḵem I am hath sent me unto you; quot. a1382 translates the Vulgate, which has post-classical Latin ego sum qui sum I am who I am; qui est, misit me ad vos who is, sent me to you; compare Jehovah n.] (frequently as great I am) (a name for) God as self-existent; also colloquial (in extended use) a person considered important, esp. by himself or herself, a self-important person. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > name of > scriptural name(s) AdonaiOE Sabaotha1325 Lord (God) of Hosts1382 Jehovah1530 I AM1539 Jah1539 the Ancient of Days1560 Elohim1605 Shaddaia1631 seven names of God1657 Yahweh1869 Hashem1877 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who is self important bug1536 his nibs1821 panjandrum1825 prima ballerina1923 I AM1926 cheese1965 the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person bug1536 bladder1579 God almighty1632 cockalorumc1796 his nibs1821 prima donna1834 fly on the (coach-)wheel1840 high muck-a-muck1856 nobs1877 high muckety-muck1882 muckamuck1883 Pooh Bah1886 prima ballerina1923 I AM1926 muckety-muck1927 Pooter1957 cheese1965 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. iii. 14 Þe lord sayde to Moyses, I am þe whiche am he seiþ, þus þou schalt say to þe children of yrael, he þat is: haþ sent me to ȝou.] 1539 Bible (Great) Exod. iii. 14 And god answered Moses: I am that I am: And he sayd: this shalte thou say vnto the chyldren of Israel: I am hath sent me vnto you. 1674 J. Howe Treat. Delighting in God i. 163 This Object of delight is the I am, yesterday and to day the same, and for ever; without variableness and shadow of change. ?1770 T. Olivers Hymn to God of Abraham x. 7 Jehovah—Father—Great I AM! We worship Thee. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xiii. 296 The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. 1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes iii. 184 Jim thought himself quite a Great I AM. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 131 I am a cypher. You are the great I-am! as far as life goes. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 57 Lifting its voice against the Absolute, the ultimate I-Am. 1970 D. Francis Rat Race i. 13 He had none of the ‘I am’ aura which often clings around the notably successful. 1993 Mod. Lang. Rev. 88 953 For him the ‘I’ is a unified self that participates mysteriously in the divine ‘I am’. < as lemmas |
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