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So, before we fault St. Jerome for a blunder, let us consider that so impressive a linguistic scholar as he may have chosen to give Moses horns deliberately by using cognate imagery he understood to stand for dignity and power.
The cartridge blunder became a pretext for avenging other grievances, with troops rallying around the rulers dispossessed by Lapse or Paramountcy.
It added, "Signs of weakness will not be overlooked by the market, which exploits every little blunder to its advantage."
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.
*ghost-word, a word that has originated in the blunder of a scribe or printer--common in dictionaries