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Gog

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[gog] / gɒg /

noun

  1. (in the Bible) a chief prince of Meshech and Tubal who came from Magog.


Etymology

Origin of Gog

Ultimately from Hebrew Gōgh, of uncertain origin

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Together with Adam Kucharski, also from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, I have recently collaborated with the BBC on a massive citizen science project, led by Professor Julia Gog from Cambridge University.

From The Guardian Mar. 17, 2020

Brought up to date by the English novelist, playwright and historian, Andrew Sinclair, Gog and Magog come to signify the haunting memory and failing desire of a geratic Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Magog it is learned that Gog went left and north to become a breeder of lobsters and delver into the mysteries of the ancient Druids.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gog began with a seven-foot-tall amnesiac washed up on a Scottish beach.

From Time Magazine Archive

Modern mathematicians would say that Gog, the wolf carver, used a five-based or quinary counting system.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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