Words of the Month (January 2024)

1) The English word "geodesic" has the potential meaning: "relating to or involving the geometry of curved surfaces. noun. 2. Also called: geodesic line. the shortest line between two points on a curved or plane surface" (Collins English Dictionary).

2) Oxymoron (English)-According to Google's Generative AI: "An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words to create a new meaning. For example, 'old news,' 'deafening silence,' or 'organized chaos' are all oxymorons."

Oxford Languages: "a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

'that fashionable rhetorical novelty, the humblebrag, is itself an oxymoron'"

3) חָרַף (Hebrew)-transliterated, the word is charaph. Michael V. Fox translates charaph as "insults" in Proverbs 27:11. William McKane (in his Proverbs commentary) uses the verbs "denigrate" and vilify" to communicate the idea behind the Hebrew. Another way to translate it would be "reproach" or "taunt."

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