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separate the sheep from the goats

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables
sep-a-rate the sheep- from the -goats
IPA
47
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To divide the members of a group into those that are superior and those that are inferior.

Etymology

From the New Testament discourse of the Sheep and the Goats, particularly Matthew 25:32–33: “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.”

Inflected Forms

separates the sheep from the goats (present, singular) separating the sheep from the goats (participle, present) separated the sheep from the goats (participle, past) separated the sheep from the goats (past)

Questions

What does separate the sheep from the goats mean?
To divide the members of a group into those that are superior and those that are inferior.
Where does separate the sheep from the goats come from?
From the New Testament discourse of the Sheep and the Goats, particularly Matthew 25:32–33: “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.”

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