Mi Khamokha
Pronunciations
Mi Khamokha | (MEE khah-MOH-khah) | listen |
Definitions
n. A prayer sung on Shabbat and other services in many synagogues.
Example Sentences
"anyone else find themselves with prayers randomly stuck in their head? I just started humming Mi Chamocha to myself and my fiancé looked at me like I had six heads LOL" (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
מִי כָמֹכָה literally 'Who is like (as great as) you (God)?'
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- North America
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
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Alternative Spellings
Mi Chamocha
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