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kriah

kriah is the alternative form of keriah.

Meaning of keriah

Noun

keriah (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) The ritual tearing of one’s clothes while in mourning, now typically the wearing of a torn black tie or ribbon.
    • In Keriah for one’s father or mother, the garment is rent on the left side, where the heart is.1976, Isaac Klein, A Time To Be Born, A Time To Die, page 29

Questions about kriah

What is kriah the alternative form of?
Kriah is the alternative form of keriah.

Words near kriah in the dictionary

  1. Kreys
  2. KRG
  3. KRI
  4. kri-kri
  5. kri-kris
  6. kriah
  7. Krias Shema
  8. Kriaski
  9. Kriat HaTorah
  10. Kriat Shema
  11. kribergite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kriah (page history and authors); keriah (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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