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Scapegoat Wilderness — Infobox protected area | name = Scapegoat Wilderness iucn category = Ib caption = locator x = 70 locator y = 25 location = Montana, USA nearest city = Missoula, MT lat degrees = 47 lat minutes = 07 lat seconds = 0 lat direction = N long degrees … Wikipedia
Scapegoat (disambiguation) — A scapegoat is a person unfairly blamed for some misfortune, or an actual goat used in a Jewish ritual. It may also refer to:;Songs: * Scapegoat , on the 1982 album Under the Flag by Fad Gadget * Scapegoat , from the debut album Soul of a New… … Wikipedia
scapegoat — ► NOUN 1) a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings or mistakes of others. 2) (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Leviticus, chapter 16). ► VERB ▪… … English terms dictionary
Scapegoat — Scape goat , n. [Scape (for escape) + goat.] 1. (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, a person or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
scapegoat — (n.) 1530, goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, symbolic bearer of the sins of the people, coined by Tyndale from SCAPE (Cf. scape) (n.) + GOAT (Cf. goat) to translate L. caper emissarius, itself a translation in Vulgate of… … Etymology dictionary
scapegoat — /skayp goht /, n. 1. a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. 2. Chiefly Biblical. a goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head … Universalium
Scapegoat — 16.The scapegoat is attested in two ritual texts in archives at Ebla of the 24th century BCE. [Ida Zatelli, The Origin of the Biblical Scapegoat Ritual: The Evidence of Two Eblaite Text , Vetus Testamentum 48.2 (April 1998:254 263).] They were… … Wikipedia
scapegoat — [16] In biblical times the ritual of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, included a ceremony involving two goats: one was sacrificed to God, and the other was sent off into the wilderness as the symbolic bearer of the people’s sins. This… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
scapegoat — 1. noun /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt,ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/ a) In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed. He is making me a scapegoat. b) Someone… … Wiktionary
Scapegoat — Lev. 16:8 26; R.V., the goat for Azazel (q.v.), the name given to the goat which was taken away into the wilderness on the day of Atonement (16:20 22). The priest made atonement over the scapegoat, laying Israel s guilt upon it, and then sent… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
