Gaons is a 5 letter English word.
You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Gaons (agnos).
1770-80; Hebrew: literally, majesty
Still, in his day, Campanton passed for the Gaon of Castile.
The Commentary which passes as that of Saadia the Gaon is said to be spurious.
But Abraham had followers in Pumbeditha, who gave him their support, and refused allegiance to the rival Gaon.
At the age of thirty-six Saadiah received a remarkable honor; he was summoned to Sura to fill the post of Gaon.
The great Gaon Saadiah (892-942) united within himself all strands of thought.
But the Gaon refused to enter into polemics with a "heretic."
The stern Gaon refused even to see the exponent of heterodoxy.
The Gaon's proclamation hinted at this work, and its author felt painfully hurt by the attack.
The yeshibah of Volozhin raised a whole generation of scholars and rabbis "in the spirit of the Gaon."
But if the Exilarch was not learned, he delegated this duty to the Gaon of Sora.