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moon-sickle en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of moonsickle.
    alt of moonsickle
    • So Simeon ben Gamaliel did not fear that a Jew would worship an image of the sun or a moon-sickle on a common object like a water pot, but saw danger in a golden or silver moon-sickle which might be worn as a talisman, as he is quoted in self-explanation in the Gemara. 1992, Erwin R[amsdell] Goodenough, “Pagan Symbols in Judaism: Astronomical Symbols”, in Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period (Bollingen Series; Mythos), abridged edition, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 153:

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moon-sickles Number=Plur lexicographic