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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. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  6. 30 One-In-A-Million Coincidences That Are Hard To ... - AOL

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    Luck. Fate. Blessing. A glitch in the matrix. Or, if you’re more skeptical, just a coincidence.. It’s a phenomenon that, from a statistical perspective, is random and meaningless.

  7. Talk:Yeshua/Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew word 'Yeshua' when transliterated to 'Iesous' is phonetically equal to a certain grammatical form of a Greek word. Therefore, the words are the same in regards to etymology. You must assume that for two things to be etymologically similar then being phonetically equal is a sufficient condition.

  8. Triple parentheses - Wikipedia

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    Author Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic said that he hoped that Jews could reclaim the symbolism in the same way as some LGBT people had reclaimed the word "queer". [20] Jonathan Weisman, an editor at The New York Times, included the triple parentheses in the title of his 2018 book release, (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age ...

  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]