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righteous among the nations

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables
righ-teous a-mong the -na-tions
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Title given to a gentile who risked his or her life during the Holocaust to save Jews.

noun

A gentile who risked his or her life during the Holocaust to save Jews.

Etymology

Translation of Hebrew חסיד אומות העולם / חֲסִיד אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם (khasíd 'umót ha'olám, literally “righteous [one] of the nations of the world”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does righteous among the nations mean?
Title given to a gentile who risked his or her life during the Holocaust to save Jews.
Where does righteous among the nations come from?
It is traced to Hebrew.

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