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Kohen Gadol en · NOUN

Etymology

From Hebrew כהן גדול.

Meanings

  1. (Judaism) The high priest.
    • This utterance was originally a response by the people when they heard the Tetragrammaton from the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) on Yom Kippur and every day on Birkat Kohanim. 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer:

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