machzor

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Pronunciations

machzor (MACH-zore) listen
machzor (MACH-zur) listen

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Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "Should I buy a machzor this Rosh Hashanah?"

  • "Didn't you bring your Pesach machzor? You won't find all these things in the regular prayer book." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • מחזור machzor, lit. 'cycle; holiday prayerbook'; short for מחזור תפילה machzor tefila

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      mahzor, makhzor

Notes

  • plural: 'machzorim'

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