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Abbethdin en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of av beit din.
   alt of av beit din
   • In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin […] : David, for him his tuneful Harp had strung, […] 1702, John Dryden (with Nahum Tate?), Absalom and Achitophel, in Miscellany Poems, part 1, third edition, page 34
   • Here the council held daily meetings, at which members sat in the form of a half-moon, with the Nasi in the middle, the Abbethdin on his right hand, and the Hakam on the left. 1849, John Relly Beard, chapter 3, in A Biblical Reading Book, page 120:

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