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Abbethdin
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Ab Beth Din
English
Noun
en 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,
en 1849 John Relly Beard A Biblical Reading Book 3 120 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.
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