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  • The Rabbis derive “eshet lapidot” from the word lapid (torch) and this phrase would therefore refer to her vocation, which was preparing the wicks for the Tabernacle (BT Megillah 14a).

    Deborah 2: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • Do you complain about someone calling a wooden structure “dilapidated” (from the Latin “lapid -”, meaning stone — you knew this of course, right?)?

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • Homer · March 22nd, 2004 at 10:45 pm poraz and lapid disagree with any form of action period good or bad.. no proof there.

    Israeli Chiefs Opposed Assassination | Jewschool 2004

  • In a Dental (d or t); as, lapis (lapid-s); mīles (mīlet-s).

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • The building of a church cannot be begun before the bishop or his delegate has approved of the site, placed a cross there, and blessed the first stone (Pontificate Romanum, Pars II, De benedict. et imposit.prim. lapid. pro eccl. aedif.).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • One more thing, why does tommy lapid, who hated large segments of the jewish population, get a mention when he passes on, but MK Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, who loved all jews, and fought valiantly for Lehi in the 40's, not get a mention? could it be you have a anti-religious bias?

    FailedMessiah.com 2009

  • Probabiliter explicat loGum Theo-* phr. de lapid. fect.

    Theophili Christophori Harles Introdvctio in historiam lingvae graecae 1792

  • Un jour que ces gens-l� avoient trouv� une image de Notre Seigneur, ils se mirent � la lapider, comme leurs p鑢es jadis l’avoient lapid� lui-m阭e; mais l’image ayant vers� du sang, ils furent tellement effray閟 du miracle, qu’ils se sauv鑢ent, all鑢ent s’accuser � l’関阸ue, et donn鑢ent m阭e leur maison en r閜aration du crime.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • (jerusalem, november 9, 2008) today, at its weekly cabinet meeting, the government authorized the appointment of rabbi israel meir lau as chairman of the yad vashem council he will succeed the late joseph (tommy) lapid Dubai Holding owned by Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • (jerusalem, november 9, 2008) today, at its weekly cabinet meeting, the government authorized the appointment of rabbi israel meir lau as chairman of the yad vashem council he will succeed the late joseph (tommy) lapid Dubai Holding owned by Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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