go·lem

(gō′ləm)

In Jewish folklore, an artificially created human supernaturally endowed with life.

[Hebrew gōlem, lump, clod, fool, from gālam, to wrap up; see glm in Semitic roots.]

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golem

(ˈɡəʊlɛm)

(Non-European Myth & Legend) (in Jewish legend) an artificially created human being brought to life by supernatural means

[from Yiddish goylem, from Hebrew gōlem formless thing]

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go•lem

(ˈgoʊ ləm, -lɛm)

n.

(in Jewish folklore) a figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.

[1895–1900; (< Yiddish goylem) < Hebrew gōlem shapeless thing]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	golem - (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means folklore - the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture Judaism - the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud mythical being - an imaginary being of myth or fable
	2.	golem - a mechanism that can move automatically robot, automaton android, humanoid, mechanical man - an automaton that resembles a human being mechanism - device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function

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Hanging over the gallery door--rather like a prize swordfish mounted over a sailing club's entrance--was the fabulous, iridescent blue-green Golem. With its tessellated, reptilian skin voluptuously shaped into waves, and frothy curls along its edges resembling ocean foam, Golem suggests the lab-grown scales of some cloned, prehistoric sea monster.

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Jorge Luis Borges's poem "El Golem," published in 1958 in Davar and included in El otro, el mismo in 1964, depicts a rabbi's creation of a golem, an artificial, anthropomorphic clay form that is endowed with life through the secrets of the Sacred Scriptures.

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