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==Origin==

==Origin==

''scape''; intended as [[translation]] of [[Hebrew]] ''ʽazāzēl'' (probably name of a [[demon]]), as if ʽ''ēz 'ōzēl'' goat that departs—[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Leviticus#Chapter_.16 Lev 16:8]

''scape''; intended as [[translation]] of [[Hebrew]] ''ʽazāzēl'' (probably name of a [[demon]]), as if ʽ''ēz 'ōzēl'' goat that departs—[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Leviticus#Chapter_.16 Lev 16:8]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1530]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1530]

The verb "to scapegoat" (noun form "scapegoating") is a [[modern]] form of the older transitive verb-noun construction "to make (someone) a scapegoat". Scapegoat derives from the common [[English]] translation of the Hebrew term ''azazel'' (Hebrew: עזאזל) which occurs in Leviticus 16:8 after the prefix la- (Hebrew לַ "for"). The lexicographer Gesenius and Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew Lexicon give ''la-azazel'' (Hebrew: עזאזל) as a reduplicative intensive of the stem azel "remove", hence la-azazel, "for entire removal". This [[reading]] is supported by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Greek Old Testament] [[translation]] as "the sender away (of sins)".

The verb "to scapegoat" (noun form "scapegoating") is a [[modern]] form of the older transitive verb-noun construction "to make (someone) a scapegoat". Scapegoat derives from the common [[English]] translation of the Hebrew term ''azazel'' (Hebrew: עזאזל) which occurs in Leviticus 16:8 after the prefix la- (Hebrew לַ "for"). The lexicographer Gesenius and Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew Lexicon give ''la-azazel'' (Hebrew: עזאזל) as a reduplicative intensive of the stem azel "remove", hence la-azazel, "for entire removal". This [[reading]] is supported by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Greek Old Testament] [[translation]] as "the sender away (of sins)".