Knesset
Pronunciations
Knesset | (KNEH-set) | listen |
Definitions
n. Israel's parliament.
Example Sentences
"The Conversion Bill was removed from the Knesset floor last week."
Languages of Origin
- Modern Hebrew
Etymology
כנסת lit. 'assembly, assemblage.' Short for כנסת ישראל "Knesset Yisrael" ("The Entire Jewish People"), which occurs throughout the Talmud and other Rabbinic literature.
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
Who Uses This
Regions
Dictionaries
Alternative Spellings
kneset, Kneset, Keneset, keneset
Edit Something missing from this entry? Inaccurate? Feel free to suggest an edit.