Usually means: Candle used to light menorah.
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  7. Shamash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shamash)

▸ noun:  The sun god and god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu.
▸ noun:  (Judaism) The candle used to light the other eight candles of a Hanukkah menorah or hanukkiah.
▸ noun:  A sexton in a synagogue.

Similar:
Shivini, Assur, Anshur, Ashur, Anshar, Tammuz, Marduk, Amaterasu, Chemosh, Atem, more...

Opposite:
nocturnal, dark, night

Adjectives:
sun, glorious, babylonian, seated, amat, semitic, great, heavenly, warad, radiant, sungod

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Similar:
Shivini, Assur, Anshur, Ashur, Anshar, Tammuz, Marduk, Amaterasu, Chemosh, Atem, more...

Opposite:
nocturnal, dark, night

Adjectives:
sun, glorious, babylonian, seated, amat, semitic, great, heavenly, warad, radiant, sungod



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