exégesis
Spanish, noun
exégesis is spelled E-X-É-G-E-S-I-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 60,585th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exégesis is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “exegesis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, exegesis is a different word: “alternative form of exégesis”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Explicación, interpretación”.
What does exégesis mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineexegesis
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of exégesis
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Explicación, interpretación. 2. Interpretación o explicación de un texto, la cual puede ser filológica, histórica o doctrinal. Frecuentemente se emplea para la interpretación doctrinal de un texto antiguo en análisis comparativo histórico-filológico, que sirve así mismo para la datación de aquella obras cuya fecha de composición se desconoce. Este término se aplica especialmente refiriéndose a la interpretación de las Sagradas e
noun: 1. Variante de exégesis.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of exégesis
- exegesis alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to exégesis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exégesis in Spanish?
exégesis appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).