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epikoros

epikoros is the alternative form of apikoros.

Meaning of apikoros

Noun

apikoros (plural apikorsim)

  1. A Jewish skeptic or apostate.
    • And these are they that have no portion in the world to come: He who says that the revivification of the dead cannot be proved from the Law, and that the Law is not from heaven, and an Apikoros (that is, one that does not fully believe in the Law).1882, Paul Isaac Hershon (tr.), Treasures of the Talmud, page 48

Forms of epikoros

pluralepikorsim

Questions about epikoros

What is epikoros the alternative form of?
Epikoros is the alternative form of apikoros.

Words near epikoros in the dictionary

  1. epikeratoplasty
  2. epikeratoprosthesis
  3. epikleses
  4. epiklesis
  5. epikletic
  6. epikoros
  7. epikorsim
  8. Epikouros
  9. epilachnene
  10. epilachnine
  11. epilamellar

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