Definitions for Geonim

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Geonim Ge·o·nim

Spelling: [Sephardic Hebrew ge-aw-neem; Ashkenazic Hebrew gey-oh

IPA: /Sephardic Hebrew gɛ ɔˈnim; Ashkenazic Hebrew geɪˈoʊ nɪm/

Geonim is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in Geonim (egimno).

Definitions for Geonim

noun

1. a plural of Gaon.
2. a title of honor for the directors of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, used from the end of the 6th century a.d. to about the beginning of the 11th century.
3. an eminent Jewish scholar noted for wisdom and knowledge of the Talmud:

Origin of Geonim

1770-80; Hebrew: literally, majesty

Examples for Geonim

A full list of the Geonim is given in tabular form in the Jewish Encyclopaedia, vol.

Far from condemning knowledge, the Geonim considered it as an aid and supplement to religion.

Second, brief compilations of precepts, like the works of Hefez ben Yazliah and the responsa of some Geonim.

Hai Gaon died in 1038, closing the period of the Geonim after an activity of four and a half centuries.

The Geonim were required to do homage to the Exilarchs (see Exilarch) but were otherwise independent.

The chronicle of the Saboraim and Geonim as given by him is our guide for this epoch.

They accepted the decisions of the Geonim as law, without greatly troubling themselves as to their agreement with the Bible.

Not even the Qaraite schism was able to break the power of the Geonim.

It was adopted by some of the later Geonim from the Muʿtazila.

In Jewish circles, many began to criticise the responses of the Geonim, and no longer looked upon them as oracular utterances.