English-French translations for verse

• vers
  Nous, les Polonais, sommes versés dans les vérités de l’Évangile. We Poles are well versed in Gospel truths.
  Ce vers que je viens de vous citer marque la première occurrence du mot "Aish" dans la Bible. This verse that I just quoted to you is the first time the word 'Aish' appears in the Bible.
  Monsieur Schulz, je suis ravi de constater que vous êtes bien plus versé dans les Écritures que je ne le suis. Mr Schulz, I am delighted to see that you are much better versed in the Bible than I am.
• verset
  Au cœur de cet épisode, au chapitre IV de la Genèse, se trouve un verset impossible à traduire. Dans toutes les Bibles anglaises que j'ai lues, ce verset n'est pas traduit, il est paraphrasé. And at the heart of this story in Genesis, Chapter IV, is a verse that is impossible to translate and in every English Bible I have ever read the verse is not translated, it is paraphrased.
• couplet

Definition of verse

• A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme
• Poetic form in general
• One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed
• A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible
• A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part
• To compose verses
• To tell in verse, or poetry
• to educate about, to teach about
• To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game

Examples

• Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse
• The restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time
• Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second
• He versed us in the finer points of category theory
• Verse him, G!

Related words

• converse
• diverse
• universe
• oversee
• reverse
• reversed
• transverse
• conversely
• adversely