bedika
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n. Inspection or search, especially with regard to preparations for Passover.
Example Sentences
"However, one should make a bedika in one's home before they go away."
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
בדיקה bedika 'inspection'
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- North America
- South Africa
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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