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The meaning of SCAPEGOAT is a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur. How to use scapegoat in a sentence.
uk / ˈskeɪpɡəʊt / us. to blame a person or thing for something bad that someone else has done: They scapegoated environmental laws as the problem of the economy, instead of looking for real problems. (Definition of scapegoat from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The scapegoat was a goat that was designated (Hebrew: לַעֲזָאזֵֽל) la-'aza'zeyl; "for absolute removal" (for symbolic removal of the people's sins with the literal removal of the goat), and outcast in the desert as part of the Yom Kippur Temple service, that began during the Exodus with the original Tabernacle and continued through ...
to blame a person or thing for something bad that someone else has done: They scapegoated environmental laws as the problem of the economy, instead of looking for real problems. (Definition of scapegoat from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
scapegoat. A person or group that is made to bear blame for others. According to the Old Testament, on the Day of Atonement, a priest would confess all the sins of the Israelites over the head of a goat and then drive it into the wilderness, symbolically bearing their sins away.
scapegoat, (“goat for Azazel”), in the Yom Kippur ritual described in the Torah (Leviticus 16:8–10), goat ritually burdened with the sins of the Jewish people. The scapegoat was sent into the wilderness for Azazel, possibly for the purpose of placating that evil spirit, while a separate goat was slain as an offering to God.
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The word scapegoat first occurred in the earliest English translation of the Bible, and it has come to mean any individual punished for the misdeeds of others. When a politician gets caught lying, he or she might use an assistant as a scapegoat.
