| 单词 |
Magen David |
| 释义 |
Magen David|mɑːˈgɛn dɑːˈviːd|
Also Mogen David |ˈmɒgən ˈdɒvɪd|.
[Heb. māghēn Dāwīdh shield of David, f. Dāwīdh David, king of Judah and Israel, d. circa 973 b.c.]
A six-pointed star symbolizing Jewishness or Zionism.
1904Jewish Encycl. VIII. 251/2 Magen Dawid (‘David's Shield’), the hexagram formed by the combination of two equilateral triangles. 1934Encycl. Jewish Knowl. 324/2 Magen David... During the World War it was used..as equivalent to the Red Cross, such organizations described themselves as the ‘Red Magen David’. 1964W. Markfield To Early Grave (1965) vi. 109 During the Sinai campaign she beat two Egyptians to death with a Mogen David she herself welded together from a pair of captured gasoline drums. 1972C. Raphael Feast of Hist. (dust-jacket), The ‘square’ Magen David on the jacket appears in some Jewish manuscripts from late-fifteenth-century Portugal. 1975Jewish Chron. 7 Feb. 21/5 Can anyone explain why Jewish greetings cards should be so expensive?.. Why should the addition of a..Magen David make them so much dearer than their non-denominational counterparts? |
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