OUTDATED BIBLICAL PHRASEOLOGY AS PART OF A PASSIVE PHRASEOLOGICAL COMPOSITION OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Аннотация

This article is devoted to the outdated phraseology of the Russian language, namely, the thematic group of phraseological units dating back to the Holy Scripture (Bible) – bibleisms. The varieties of bibleisms are considered from the point of view of their origin, the semantic peculiarity and stylistic affiliation of individual biblical phrasemes are noted. The dynamism of the functioning of biblical expressions in the language is also noted: the reasons for their disuse and the possibility of the return of some obsolete phrasemes to the active stock of the language.