tefillah
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n. Prayer, services, or an individual prayer.
Example Sentences
"We had tefillah on Shabbat."
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
תפילה tefilla 'prayer'
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Camp: Jews who attend or work at a Jewish overnight summer camp
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- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
t'fillah, tefila, tefilla, tefilah, t'fila, t'filla, t'filah, tfilah, tfila
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