Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word HAPAX
HAPAX
Definitions of HAPAX
- Ellipsis of hapax legomenon.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using HAPAX in a Sentence
- The script gets its name from the word deseret, a hapax legomenon in the Book of Mormon, which is said to mean "honeybee" in the only verse it is used in.
- Hapax legomena are quite common, as predicted by Zipf's law, which states that the frequency of any word in a corpus is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table.
- The text describing this blessing features a hapax legomenon – the word שכל (sh-k-l) – which classical rabbinical literature has interpreted in esoteric manners; other rabbinical sources connect the term with shikkel, viewing it as signifying that Jacob was despoiling Manasseh in favour of Ephraim; yet other rabbinical sources argue that it refers to the power of Jacob to instruct and guide the Holy Spirit.
- In 2022, Desset and his colleagues published an updated inventory of 348 Linear Elamite glyphs, corresponding to between 80–110 graphemes, including 72 phonographic signs and their allographic variants, 4 undeciphered infrequent signs, and 33 hapax legomena.
- In Syrmia, the plant is referred to as špirgasta trava (a hapax legomenon), in Slavonia it is known as zemaljski ključ ("earth key"), and in Slovenia's Savinja Valley as mavričin koren ("rainbow root").
- Some poems have been published in various magazines as PO&SIE, Poésie 2000, Le Mâche-Laurier, Noniouze, Décharge, Marge 707, Moriturus, Le frisson esthétique, Hapax, l'intranquille and larevue* in France, Calendrier de la poésie francophone and MIDI in Belgium, RBL (Revue de Belles-Lettres) in Switzerland, Exit in Canada, Pagine, Offerta Speciale, BINA and SUD in Italy, Nea Hestia in Greece, Artic, Frau und Hund and hochroth in Germany, Wespennest in Austria, Sentinel Literary Quarterly in Great Britain, The Brooklyn Rail in the USA.
- Gruel, dilgirunt, dillegrout (1377) (dillegrout is a hapax legomenon—a word written in a dictionary or authoritative document that has no prior appearance in language).
- A weakened Annihilator shows up and uses Black Widower's poison power as Hapax transports Kaz, Oliver, and Skylar back to Mighty Med to get an antidote.
- Most scholars think that inclusions of this phrase in later manuscripts are probably a result of harmonisation attempts with Mark 5:26 rather than a Lukan rewriting of the Markan original, especially because προσαναλωσασα is a hapax legomenon.
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