tefillah

Definitions

• prayer, services, or an individual prayer

Example Sentences

• "We had tefillah on Shabbat."

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew

Etymology

• תפילה tefilla 'prayer'

Who Uses This

• 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

Regions

• North America

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).
• Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).

Alternative Spellings

t'fillah, tefila, tefilla, tefilah, t'fila, t'filla, t'filah, tfilah, tfila