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    The Guide for the Perplexed (category Censorship in Judaism)
    are explained by him as perfect homonyms, denoting two or more absolutely distinct things; others, as imperfect homonyms, employed in some instances figuratively...
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  • 4 (section Judaism)
    and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. In Slavic mythology, the god Svetovid has...
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    Lord", which forces one to interpret הוחל huchal not as "began" but as the homonym "profanated". In this light, Enosh suggests the notion of a humanity (Enoshut)...
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  • tikún olám, lit. 'repairing of the world') is a concept in progressive Judaism, which refers to various forms of action intended to repair and improve...
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    Herem (war or property) (category Judaism and warfare)
    27:28), it often refers to "a ban for utter destruction". There is also a homonym, herem, meaning fisherman's net, which occurs 9 times in the masoretic...
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    Moses (section Judaism)
    slavery in the Exodus. He is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and Samaritanism, and one of the most important prophets in Christianity...
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    languages may either be distinguished from such attributes, or homonymic. For example, in Judaism the tetragrammaton is sometimes related to the ancient Hebrew...
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    Elohim (category Angels in Judaism)
    that Elohim "Divinity" and elohim "gods" are commonly understood to be homonyms. One modern theory suggests that the notion of divinity underwent radical...
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    signifies or implies the person's father to be distinguished from his homonyms. Opinion is divided on whether Jude the apostle was also Jude, brother...
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  • Empire, and also as a language of divine worship and religious study within Judaism, Christianity and Gnosticism. Western Aramaic is still spoken by the Christian...
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    Hebrew noun. This noun comes from the semitic root Ḥ-R-M. There is also a homonym herem "fisherman's net", which appears nine times in the Masoretic Text...
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  • religious lines, and encompassing groups that adhere to Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism and Islam. Christian Neo-Aramaic languages have long co-existed...
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  • while the Kabbalists favour ʾor because its numerical value equals ר״ז, a homonym for רז rāz "mystery". ʾOr is one of the two main Kabbalistic metaphors...
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    Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...
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    Erasmia, "The terms Albanoi and Arvanitai and the first mention of the homonym people of the Balkans in the 11th century sources", Balkanika Symmikta...
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    in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon: With Special Reference to Homonyms, Related Words and Borrowings with Cultural Signification. Uppsala: Uppsala...
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    places where the original Hebrew is marked either by a Hebrew idiom, a homonym, or a metaphor, and could not be readily understood otherwise. The translator...
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    used in certain countries, e.g., Romania, to distinguish from the endonym/homonym for Romanians (sg. român, pl. români). In Norway, Romani is used exclusively...
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    papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Biographical summary (Homonym scientist in French) Édouard Dujardin Papers and the Édouard Dujardin Photograph...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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  • didn't practice the Osu caste system (not to be misconstrued for the "osu" homonym associated with greatness in the igbo lexicon) despite its legality and...
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    derived from Kala, which is mentioned quite differently in Sanskrit. The homonym kālá (time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated...
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    Retrieved 20 January 2022. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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    same as puns, which play on the varied means of a word or phrase or the homonyms thereof. "How many of these great female thinkers have you heard of?"....
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    Samuel ibn Tibbon (category Philosophers of Judaism)
    verbs and adjectives derived from substantives by analogy with the Arabic; Homonyms, used with special meanings; and Words to which new meanings were given...
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  • Morris Ximenes (category Converts to Anglicanism from Judaism)
    British Army and Berkshire landowner who had converted to Anglicanism from Judaism. Morris was born in London about 1762. He was a member of the London Exchange...
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  • Seder HaDoroth (category History books about Judaism)
    which has been published is Erke HaKinnuyim, a dictionary of synonyms and homonyms occurring in the Bible, Talmud, and other works, chiefly Kabalistic (Dyhernfurth...
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  • of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, S.S.J. (Josephites - which has a homonym) Society of the Catholic Apostolate, S.A.C. (Pallottines) Society of the...
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    the ford' (from the stem ritu- 'ford') or 'that of the course' (from the homonym ritu-, rito- 'course'), and a temple dedicated to Uorioni Deo ('goddess...
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    to recognise Turkey by its Turkish name Türkiye, in part because of the homonym, turkey (bird), for the name of the country in the English language. In...
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