Even more so than our last “Word for Thought”, copacetic, the origins of the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for March 26th are Hebraic. The word was shibboleth.
1 : catchword, slogan
2 : a widely held belief or truism
3 : a custom or usage regarded as distinctive of a particular group
M-W’s background on the word:
The Bible’s [...]
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“Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O LORD, And whom You teach out of Your Torah...”- Psalm 94:12 |
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