{"id":248,"date":"2004-12-29T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2004-12-29T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T22:29:05","slug":"void-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"void star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you call this symbol (assuming you have a font that shows it): \u2721?<\/p>\n<p>In England it&#8217;s usually called a Star of David (which is also the Unicode name for the character), and here in Israel it&#8217;s a <span lang=\"he-latn\">Magen David<\/span> (<span lang=\"he\">\u05de\u05d2\u05df \u05d3\u05d5\u05d3<\/span>), which literally means Shield of David. In America, people seem to call it a Jewish star (though it has only been a distinctly Jewish symbol for 100 years or so), and in Arabic there&#8217;s a generation shift to <span lang=\"ar-latn\">Khatam Suleiman<\/span> (<span lang=\"ar\">\u062e\u0627\u062a\u0645 \u0633\u0644\u064a\u0645\u0627\u0646<\/span>), Solomon&#8217;s Seal.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Google translator has found a new name for it: <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;sl=de&#038;u=http:\/\/www.jafi.org.il\/education\/german\/festivls\/Unabhaengigkeitstag\/act5.html&#038;prev=\/search%3Fq%3D%2522magen%2Bdavid%2522%2Bgeschichte%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG\">stomach David<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat-tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2004_12_01_paleojudaica_archive.html#110427459023707432\">James Davila<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you call this symbol (assuming you have a font that shows it): \u2721? In England it&#8217;s usually called a Star of David (which is also the Unicode name for the character), and here in Israel it&#8217;s a Magen David (\u05de\u05d2\u05df \u05d3\u05d5\u05d3), which literally means Shield of David. In America, people seem to call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}