haphtara
haphtara is the alternative form of Haftarah.
Meaning of Haftarah
Noun
Haftarah (plural Haftarot or Haftaros or Haftarahs or Haftaroth)
- A selection from the books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim of the Tanach, usually corresponding to the week's parashah, publicly read in synagogue following the parashah.
- Recent scholars, on the other hand, without much show of reason, as it would appear, variously hold the Haftarah to have sprung from the sermon or homiletic exercise which accompanied the reading in the Pentateuch, and took its exordium (as Haftarah, by an extraordinary linguistic passage, adapted...1874, Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch, page 320
Forms of haphtara
| plural | haphtaras |
|---|---|
| plural | haphtarot |
| plural | haphtaroth |
Questions about haphtara
- What is haphtara the alternative form of?
- Haphtara is the alternative form of Haftarah.
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