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English
Noun
Abbethdin (plural Abbethdins)
- Alternative form of av beit din
- 1702, John Dryden (with Nahum Tate?), Absalom and Achitophel, in Miscellany Poems, part 1, third edition, page 34:
- In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin : David, for him his tuneful Harp had strung,
1849, John Relly Beard, chapter 3, in A Biblical Reading Book, page 120:Here the council held daily meetings, at which members sat in the form of a half-moon, with the Nasi in the middle, the Abbethdin on his right hand, and the Hakam on the left.
References
- Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN)