semel

is the Bible's word for symbol, and it only ever appears as an insult for an idol.

Recast in definition form from: “… semel, occurs in the Bible five times, but always in …”

symbolism

idolatry

Hebrew

idol

symbol

image

abbreviation

adjective

adverb

advice

antonym

article

babushka

coinage

compound word

contraction

curse word

davar

diminutive

dispatch

divine word

expletive

five-letter word

homograph

homonym

homophone

honorific

interjection

Kafkaesque

keyword

kvetch

mensch

name

neologism

noun

onomatopoeia

palindrome

pattern word

please

possibly

prefix

preposition

pronoun

schlep

schmuck

sorry

swear word

synonym

term

therefore

they

kafkaesque

acronyms

anagram

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

semel, n.All

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