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Definition of Parashah
1. n. A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.
Definition of Parashah
1. a portion of the Torah read on the Sabbath [n -SHAHS or -SHOTH or -SHOT or -SHIOTH]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parashah
Literary usage of Parashah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Genesis: With a New by James Gracey Murphy (1867)
"The first five verses form the first parashah or section of the Hebrew text.
If this division come from the author, it indicates that he regarded the first ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The sections are known by the initial (or occasionally the first and the second)
word; thus the name of the first parashah is " Bereshith " (" In the ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1908)
"parashah) are sections mainly of the Pentateuch, though extended In principle to
other part« o( the ОТ. They are distinguished as Smaller and Larger ..."
4. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1914)
"... of one part of parashah of the week, or recite a German paraphrase of contents
of whole parashah.—At Kissingen, conference of European and American Jews ..."
5. The Life and Work of St. Paul by Frederic William Farrar (1902)
"... function for himself, as could be easily done, since the Septuagint version
was now universally disseminated. After the parashah, was read the short ..."
6. Texts Explained by Frederic William Farrar (1899)
"The lesson from the Pentateuch was called the parashah, and that from the Prophets
the ... 1-20, which may have been the parashah and ..."
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