Homeric hapax legomenon ἐγγεινομαι -- is it not real?

1. What does hapax legomenon mean in NLP?
2. What is hapax legomenon in old english?
3. What is hapax legomenon in Torah?
4. What is a hapax word?

What does hapax legomenon mean in NLP?

Hapax legomenon refers to the appearance of a word or an expression in a body of text, not to either its origin or its prevalence in speech.

What is hapax legomenon in old english?

The word æppelfealu in line 2165 of Beowulf is a hapax legomenon meaning something like “apple-brown” — it occurs nowhere else in the Old English corpus and is apparently the poet's own unique, playful way of describing the brownish-red color of bay horses.

What is hapax legomenon in Torah?

There is a special term for words that appear only one time in Tanach. They are called “hapax legomena.” (This is Greek for “once said.”) There are about 1,300 such words in Tanach. Of course, a form of a word might appear only one time, but the root itself may appear many times.

What is a hapax word?

(ˈhæpæks ) noun. a word that only appears once in a work of or genus of literature or in a body of work by a particular author.