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chatzos

chatzos is the alternative form of chatzot.

Meaning of chatzot

Noun

chatzot (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) The time exactly halfway between sunset and sunrise; midnight.
    • A wind would blow every night at chatzos and cause King David's harp to play, and this would wake him up and he would study torah.2004 June 10, cindys, “God studies Torah and wears Tefillin?”, in alt.messianic (Usenet)

Questions about chatzos

What is chatzos the alternative form of?
Chatzos is the alternative form of chatzot.

Words near chatzos in the dictionary

  1. Chatwins
  2. chatwood
  3. Chatwoods
  4. Chatzimanolakis
  5. Chatzimanolakises
  6. chatzos
  7. chatzot
  8. Chatīsgaṛh
  9. Chau
  10. Chau Doc
  11. chau min

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chatzos (page history and authors); chatzot (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.

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