What does moon-sickle mean?

moon-sickle

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

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"So Simeon ben Gamaliel did not fear that a Jew would worship an image of the sun or a moon-sickle on a common object like a water pot, but saw danger in a golden or silver moon-sickle which might be worn as a talisman, as he is quoted in self-explanation in the Gemara."

moon-sickles (plural)

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