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Shekinah /ʃɪˈkʌɪnə /(also Shekhinah) noun [mass noun](In Jewish and Christian theology) the glory of the divine presence, conventionally represented as light or interpreted symbolically (in Kabbalism as a divine feminine aspect).According to the will of the Creator, wisdom, as the divine Shekinah, will take up a dwelling place in Jacob....- The Jewish mystical treatise called the Zohar tells us that ‘whenever Israel goes into exile, the Holy One, blessed be he, is in exile with them, for the Shekhinah [Divine Presence] never leaves them.’
- Mary is at once graced by the Light and reflects it, a figure akin to God's Shekhinah, the Hebrew understanding of Divine Wisdom as manifest in feminine guise.
Origin Mid 17th century: from late Hebrew, from šākan 'dwell, rest'. Rhymes angina, assigner, china, consignor, decliner, definer, Dinah, diner, diviner, forty-niner, hardliner, incliner, Indo-China, liner, maligner, Medina, miner, minor, mynah, recliner, refiner, Regina, Salina, shiner, signer, South Carolina, Steiner, twiner, whiner |