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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
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It primarily means 'distress, trouble' and secondarily 'vexer, rival wife' (link). It seems only to be used in the secondary sense in the chapter and verse quoted. If you click through on the etymology links, it is the feminine form of tsar 'distress; foe, enemy' from TsRR 'to show hostility toward, vex'.

Ironic that Tsar also means a Russian ruler, (which comes from completely different etymology - Latin Caesar). The Tsars and Tsarinas certainly caused distress and trouble to many.

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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
hierogamy 'marriage of a god and mortal' (aka hieros gamos.

I would have thought hierogamy would be a married priesthood.

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Originally Posted By: Jackie
What I want to know is, how come it's always a man with more than one wife, and never a woman with more than one husband?

Not never, just rarely.

Polyandry has been practised, and still is today in parts of south and south eastern Asia, amongst certain hill tribes.

But would you really want more than one husband?

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I would have thought

Then you'd've thunk wrong (link).


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Originally Posted By: Jackie
monomahagony Wood smile you care to explain that single term, ma'am?
And tsuwm--I'll Rhonda you, sir!

The third line in the " Oh, don't ask why" matter is:

Oh show us the way to next whiskey bar,
Oh, don't ask why....

Here's is some musical context:Mahagony

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musical context Oh, that's very strange. I was just doing a wordplay on mahogany.

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Ah, twiggy thing, wordplay . Plywood?

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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
I would have thought

Then you'd've thunk wrong (link).

Yes, I suppose that would be hiereuogamy or hiereogamy, however, in pagan religion the hierogamy of the god or goddess was consummated in ritual marriages by priests and priestesses, so I refuse to concede that I'm 100% wrong. grin

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