He said people could potentially know 'of cases where it is used with evil spirit as the subject or as the agent of the passive form.' I do not know of any word of this sort ending in K, but d-b(=v)-q is common enough with the sense cling, cleave, stick to,' Williamson said. 'There is no letter C in Hebrew, but the sound is represented by K and Q. Hugh Williamson, emeritus Regius professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, said the word 'divoc' would be both 'grammatically and semantically questionable.' 'This is because a) Hebrew script is somewhat ambiguous with respect to the pronunciation of vowels, and b) the same consonant, ב, can be pronounced as b or as v depending on the word.' Kahn said that is 'definitely not the same as divoc' and added: 'The only way I can think of that someone might have arrived at this conclusion is that if you were to read the Hebrew script for the word without knowing the pronunciation, you could theoretically end up pronouncing it as divok/divoc. 'I think the word that people may be thinking of is דיבוק dibbuk (often spelt dybbuk in English), which is a Jewish concept (popular in folk culture) of the spirit of a dead person that possesses a living person because they have unfinished business and want to speak through the living person,' Lily Kahn, a professor of Hebrew and Jewish languages at University College London, told Newsweek. The word 'divoc' could be considered close to an existing word-but is not itself a word in Hebrew. Divoc in Hebrew means 'possession by an evil spirit.''Ī post on r/Conspiracy on Reddit also made such a suggestion, with more than 100 comments on the post and more than 200 upvotes at the time of writing. One post on Twitter with more than 500 likes at the time of writing states: 'COVID becomes DIVOC backwards and transcribed into Hebrew means, possession by an evil spirit.'Īnother, with more than 800 likes, said: 'Covid spelled backwards is Divoc. It has been suggested that 'divoc' is a Hebrew word that means 'possession by an evil spirit.' The supposed meaning of the word 'divoc,' which is COVID backwards, has spread online.

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