Shemot

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Pronunciations

shemot (sheh-MOTE) listen

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Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "The story of the Exodus from Egypt is told in Shmos."

  • "To save space in the containers and in the Geniza, separate the pages from the YATED that contain shemos -- divrei Torah and pass along or discard the remainder of the newspaper as you would with other publications." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • שמות, lit. 'names'

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      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

      Shmot, Shmos, Shemos

Notes

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