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Definition of Chazzan
1. chazan [n -ZANS or -ZANIM] - See also: chazan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chazzan
Literary usage of Chazzan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Century of Christianity by Homersham Cox (1886)
"The similarity of the Jewish and Christian constitution is also shown in the
correspondence between the office of chazzan, or minister, and that of deacon. ..."
2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Luke by Alfred Plummer (1903)
"chazzan who had handed Him the book who received it back again. ... The chazzan
of the synagogue became the deacon or sub-deacon of the Christian Church. ..."
3. Palestine in the Time of Christ by Edmond Stapfer (1886)
"This explains how Christ's disciples came to be so hungry one Sabbath day.7 It
was to the synagogue Or in the house of the chazzan. See " Shabbath," foL 35 ..."
4. A Commentary: Critical, Practical and Explanatory, on the Old and New by Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset, David Brown (1884)
"The deacons answer to the chazzan of the synagogue: the attendant ministers, ...
As the chazzan covered and uncovered the ark in the synagogue, ..."
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