moon-sickle

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See also: moon sickle and moonsickle

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Noun

moon-sickle (plural moon-sickles)

  1. Alternative form of moonsickle.
    • 1992, Erwin R Goodenough, “Pagan Symbols in Judaism: Astronomical Symbols”, in Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period (Bollingen Series; Mythos), abridged edition, Princeton, N.J., Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 153:
      So Simeon ben Gamaliel did not fear that a Jew would worship an image of the sun or a moon-sickle on a common object like a water pot, but saw danger in a golden or silver moon-sickle which might be worn as a talisman, as he is quoted in self-explanation in the Gemara.

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