

#Minion meaning in hebrew full#
View the full definition in the Macmillan Dictionary. “History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power – bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.” 1 The final two letters of this word,, mean stranger or outsider. Some well-known minion groups in popular culture include the Flying Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, the Imperial Stormtroopers in the Star Wars franchise and, of course, the widely recognized yellow Minions from the Despicable Me films. The Hebrew word mamzer () appears once in the Torah: A mamzer shall not enter the assembly of the Lrd even the tenth generation shall not enter the assembly of the Lrd. Minion characters are often a group of nameless individuals that lack clearly defined personalities in a work of fiction. Minions do the bidding of the villain, often carrying out evil or dangerous plans intended to harm or discourage the hero. The minion archetype – sometimes called the henchman – is usually associated with the villain in a story, book, movie, television show or play. Other common character archetypes in fiction include the hero, the mentor and the trickster. Archetype characters have specific traits and actions that are repeated over and over in stories to give them more depth. An archetype is a model character that is used as an example of typical behaviour. In fiction writing, the minion is a common character archetype.

Though the word minion was first used to describe a favourite or an agreeable darling, over time the word has come to have a more negative meaning. Minion is a noun that refers to someone who does whatever a more powerful person commands.
