scapegoat
意味
- 他人の罪をかぶる人,身代り
- 贖罪(しょくざい)のヤギ(旧約聖書「レビ記」で古代ユダヤ人が罪を負わせ野に放ったヤギ)
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows.