Word of the Day / Mistory: A secret wrapped in a Greek enigma

Word of the Day / Mistory: A secret wrapped in a Greek enigmaHaaretzThe word is spelled with the letter tet in Hebrew texts of this period, but in later texts, the tet was replaced with tav indicating that the writers did not know that the word was of Greek origin and thought that it is derived from the Biblical root s ...

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