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Hakham

[Seph. khah-khahm; Ashk. haw-khuhm]

ha·kham

[Seph. khah-khahm; Ashk. haw-khuhm]
noun Hebrew.
1.
a wise and learned person; sage.
2.
(among Sephardic Jews) a title given to a rabbi.
Also, ha·kam.


Origin:
ḥākhām literally, wise
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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hakham

noun
a Hebrew title of respect for a wise and highly educated man 
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