Abstract: This paper examines appraisal instantiations realised through Biblical phraseological units in the Biblical text itself. It reports on some of the findings of a larger study on Biblical phraseological units in English in which appraisal analysis is applied. The database comprises 378 phraseological units extracted from several dictionaries. First, the textual function of the phraseological units is determined. Next, for the ones with evaluative function, the type of evaluation is defined. The function of the studied phraseological units as expressive resources from the semantic regions of emotion, ethics and aesthetics is analysed. Using the comprehensive taxonomy of appraisal lexical resources provided by the appraisal model evaluative inscriptions and tokens of invoked evaluation found in the Biblical text were assigned to the sub-categories of social sanction and social esteem and were further divided into the categories of propriety and veracity and normality, capacity and tenacity respectively. Information concerning the frequency distribution of appraisal instantiations in the Biblical text is presented. Finally, comparisons with the findings of two other studies are drawn. It is argued that in the collectivity to individual continuum Biblical phraseological units have a high potential of performing an evaluative function. Full text…