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Gazon vs Gaon - What's the difference?

gazon | gaon |

As nouns the difference between gazon and gaon

is that gazon is one of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks while Gaon is honorary title for a Jewish scholar who is noted for his wisdom and knowledge of the Talmud.

gazon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
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    gaon

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Honorary title for a Jewish scholar who is noted for his wisdom and knowledge of the Talmud.
  • In modern usage, a genius.

    • Quotations

    * 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=5mR5jX70oqwC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&sig=efbu3LMM7kVUrIzfWghTlqOeIXQ] *: The Gaon' also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the ' Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses. * 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=h27UQhGY9nwC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&sig=f-awfG-HhWgq48JD6okq8b_8Vp8] *: Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon. * 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=M0wUKoMJeccC&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&sig=ffm2drYu_SPO-Cgn9eM32oW2rhM] *: The Gaon' also mentions a letter he has received from ?asan as-??q?l? (al-??q?la, the ancient Aramaic name for K?fa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the ' Gaon knew.

    See also

    * iluy *

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