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  2. False cognate - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, the Hebrew word דיבוב dibúv ("speech, inducing someone to speak"), which is a false cognate of (and thus etymologically unrelated to) the phono-semantically similar English word dubbing, is then used in the Israeli phono-semantic matching for dubbing. The result is that in Modern Hebrew, דיבוב dibúv means "dubbing". [24]

  3. Coincidence - Wikipedia

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    A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. [2] The perception of remarkable coincidences may lead to supernatural , occult , or paranormal claims, or it may lead to belief in fatalism , which is a doctrine that events will happen in the exact manner of a ...

  4. Epikoros - Wikipedia

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    Epikoros (or Apikoros or Apikores; Hebrew: אֶפִּיקוֹרוֹס, romanized: ˌʾeppikoˈros, lit. 'Epicurus', pl. Epikorsim; Yiddish: אַפּיקורס, romanized: apiˈkoyres) is a Jewish term figuratively meaning "a heretic", cited in the Mishnah, that refers to an individual who does not have a share in the World to Come:

  5. Ben-Yehuda Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The words included in the dictionary are Hebrew words from the above sources. Occasionally, Ben-Yehuda also added some Arabic, Greek and Latin words from the Mishna and the Gmara that he believed were necessary (for example the words "אכסניה" ( en': Motel ) and "אכסדרה" ( en': porch ) which appear in the dictionary in their Aramaic ...

  6. Isaac Mozeson - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary's foundation had early challengers, including his PhD advisor, who called some of his examples "a coincidence." [2] [10] an English professor in New York, died prior to the publication of the work but was reported to have said "The Word is a challenge to linguistics" and added "The parallels traced seem beyond the range of ...

  7. List of English words of Hebrew origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin.Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw (ת ‎) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.

  8. Talk:Coincidence - Wikipedia

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    the interpretation paragraph for Coincidence has an alternative definition for science, which reads Science is the practice of constructing theoretical explanations of how events (phenomena) happen to repeatedly coincide. However the definition on the Science page doesn't reflect this, and in fact the word coincidence isn't in the article at all:

  9. Tohu wa-bohu - Wikipedia

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    The words tohu and bohu also occur in parallel in Isaiah 34:11, which the King James Version translates with the words "confusion" and "emptiness". The two Hebrew words are properly segolates, spelled tohuw and bohuw. [3] Hebrew tohuw translates to "wasteness, that which is laid waste, desert; emptiness, vanity; nothing". [4]