单词 | parashah |
释义 | parashahn. Judaism. In Jewish liturgy: each of several portions of the Torah read at a Sabbath morning synagogue service; these portions collectively, a sedra (see Sedra n.).In modern Jewish use, applied spec. to the section of the weekly lesson publicly recited in the Synagogue by a Jewish youth at the age of 13, when he becomes Bar-Mitzvah. In this sense colloquial forms (see above) are used. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > Old Testament lesson > [noun] > Jewish parashah1624 Sedra1907 1624 R. Skynner Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cii. 352 They have told us that there be 54 Parashioths or Sections in Moses's Law. 1689 tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. Text New Test. xxvii. 102 The Custom the Jews have still at this day, of reading privately every Saturday, a Parasca, or section of the Chaldee Paraphrase. 1723 S. Mather Vindic. Holy Bible 362 Read instead of the Paraschas of the law. 1766 I. Pinto tr. Prayers for Shabbath 75 The second Parashah as the first Day, with Kadish. 1853 J. Cumming Script. Reading Gen. vi. 59 One parasha was read each Sabbath. 1885 Hebraica 1 159 In our Hebrew Bibles, which follow the Massoretic text, the Pentateuch is divided into 669 Parashahs. 1895 F. G. Kenyon Our Bible & Anc. MSS iv. 34 Between every consonant the space of a hair or thread must intervene;..between every new parashiah, or section, the breadth of nine consonants. 1908 S. Schechter Stud. in Judaism 2nd Ser. viii. 194 Now and then a Jewish undergraduate takes advantage of his confirmation days, and freshening up his Parashah and his prayer-book, he manages to carry off a Hebrew exhibition or sizarship. 1962 D. Bridger & S. Wolk New Jewish Encycl. 370/2 In common usage, the word ‘Parashah’ also refers to the entire Sidrah (or Sedrah), or to any of the various sections or paragraphs in the scroll of the Torah. 1969 C. Bermant Troubled Eden vi. 80 Among the very Orthodox the child will read the weekly Parsha or portion from the Pentateuch. 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 44/2 (advt.) Advanced parashah class. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1624 |
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