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HAFTARAH
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Irregular inflected form: haftaroth
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah
Synonyms:
Haftarah; Haftorah; Haphtarah; Haphtorah
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)