Hacham

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Sephardic Jewish title honorific title rabbinic title

Hacham is a traditional Sephardic Jewish honorific title denoting a wise and learned rabbi or sage.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
HaGaon	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sephardic Jewish title ⓘ honorific title ⓘ rabbinic title ⓘ
associatedWith	Mizrahi Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ Sephardic Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ
category	Hebrew words and phrases ⓘ Jewish religious titles ⓘ Sephardic culture ⓘ
contrastedWith	Ashkenazi title Rabbi ⓘ
culturalRegion	Balkan Sephardic communities NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle Eastern Jewish communities NERFINISHED ⓘ North African Jewish communities NERFINISHED ⓘ
denotes	Torah scholar ⓘ religious sage ⓘ wise and learned rabbi ⓘ
etymologyRoot	Hebrew word Chokhmah (wisdom) ⓘ
feminineForm	Hachama ⓘ
genderForm	masculine ⓘ
honorificType	religious honorific ⓘ scholarly honorific ⓘ
languageOfOrigin	Hebrew ⓘ
meaning	sage ⓘ wise ⓘ
religiousTradition	Judaism ⓘ
requires	Talmudic scholarship ⓘ Torah learning ⓘ
script	Hebrew script ⓘ
similarTitle	Gaon NERFINISHED ⓘ Rav NERFINISHED ⓘ
titleFor	halakhic authority ⓘ rabbi ⓘ religious leader ⓘ
transliteration	Chacham ⓘ
usedAsHonorificFor	community sage ⓘ rabbinic judge ⓘ spiritual leader ⓘ
usedBefore	personal name ⓘ
usedHistoricallySince	post-medieval period ⓘ
usedIn	Mizrahi Jewish communities NERFINISHED ⓘ Sephardic Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedInContext	community titles ⓘ rabbinic responsa ⓘ religious discourse ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ben Ish Chai → honorificPrefix → Hacham ⓘ

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv → honorificPrefix → Hacham ⓘ

this entity surface form: HaGaon