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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An open parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart in roughly the same way as a paragraph would be in modern text. Judaism

Synonyms

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setumah

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew פְּתוּחָה (“open”), feminine of פָּתוּחַ.

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