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- proper noun biblical Any of a number of men in the Old Testament, including a son of
Moses . - proper noun A male
given name of biblical origin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, Eliezer is responding to the brilliant, but somewhat egomaniacal, Nessim Taleb and his Black Swan book, which trumpets this phrase repeatedly.
The Bayes Who Wasn't There, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The original joke cited by Eliezer is just plain great.
Here is Wisdom, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.
The Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Anonymous 1610
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Jerusalemites had good reason for their joke about the Ben-Yehuda family: that for every new word Eliezer suggested, Hemdah wrote a new story.
Hemdah Ben-Yehuda. 2009
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The description of the two pictures "Eliezer" and the "Manna", fills forty quarto pages in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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He gave him back 'Eliezer' in a little different form.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868
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I love old Eliezer Shine running with his floppy-pocketed pants on the walls of the Old City; I love Avra the thief, especially at the moment when she puts the bullets into her own body and wonders about the fate of her twins, "shading the bullets with their yet-unlived lives"; I love Miriam and her sister Noona as they walk through the streets of Kovna, "two girls controlling the gusts of local weather."
A Conversation with Nomi Eve, author of The Family Orchard 2010
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I picture Esther mischievously wandering through Jerusalem, I picture the Chacham Tzvi writing, Miriam throwing mock grenades, Moshe grafting, young Eliezer drawing the shape of the golem on the ground.
A Conversation with Nomi Eve, author of The Family Orchard 2010
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Unlike Rabbi Eliezer who said that natural-born eunuchs could be cured (they could not cure sterility back then or physical defects such as the lack of testicles),
Think Progress » Chinese state press highlights China’s first public same-sex ‘marriage.’ 2010
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