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Where did the word scapegoat come from?

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Answered by PiyushSinghRajput1

Word Origin for scapegoat. 1530, "goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, symbolic bearer of the sins of the people," coined by Tyndale from scape(n.) + goat to translate Latin caper emissarius , itself a translation in Vulgate of Hebrew 'azazel (Lev.

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