Usually means: Jewish rabbi, strict, Hillel's counterpart.
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▸ noun:  (c. 50 BCE – c. 30 CE, , Šammaʾy) a Jewish scholar of the 1st century, and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah.

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