Shema
/ʃɛˈmɑː
/A Hebrew text consisting of three passages from the Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 6:4, 11:13-21; Numbers 15:37-41) and beginning ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord’. It forms an important part of Jewish evening and morning prayer and is used as a Jewish confession of faith.
Origin
Hebrew, literally 'hear', the first word of Deut. 6:4.
Rhymes
- air traffic
- air traffic control
- air traffic controller
- Air Training Corps
- air transport
- air-transportability
- air-transportable
- Air Transport Auxiliary
- air trap
- air travel
- air truck
- air trunk
- air tube
- air tunnel
- air turbine
- air twist
- air twisted
- air umbrella
- air vent
- air vessel
- air vice-marshal
- airview
- air volcano
- airward
- air warden