Sephardim
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- Sephardim
- plural of Sephardi "a Spanish or Portuguese Jew" (1851), from Modern Hebrew Sepharaddim "Spaniards, Jews of Spain," from Sepharad, name of a country mentioned only in Obad. v:20, probably meaning "Asia Minor" or a part of it (Lydia, Phrygia), but identified by the rabbis after the Jonathan Targum as "Spain." Related: Sephardic.
Example
- 1. Most of the sephardim arrived after the peninsula fell under roman control in the second century bc .