Word.ws English Dictionary

chagigah

chagigah is the alternative form of hagigah.

Meaning of hagigah

Noun

hagigah (countable and uncountable, plural hagigahs)

  1. A sacrificial offering at one of the three pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles).
    • The resolution points toward the rabbinic conclusion that lambs and kids are to be employed for the Passover flesh itself, while animals from the herd are to be used for a supplementary hagigah contribution.1997, H. M. Vroom, Martin Gosman, Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, →ISBN, page 77
  2. The tractate from the Talmud that deals with these offerings.

Forms of chagigah

pluralchagigahs

Questions about chagigah

What is chagigah the alternative form of?
Chagigah is the alternative form of hagigah.

Words near chagigah in the dictionary

  1. Chagford
  2. Chagga
  3. Chaghatai
  4. Chaghatay
  5. chagiga
  6. chagigah
  7. chagigahs
  8. chagigas
  9. Chagny
  10. chago
  11. Chagolla

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chagigah (page history and authors); hagigah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chagigah.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chagigah. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.