Word.ws English Dictionary

met mitzvah

met mitzvah noun: a deceased person who has no relatives or no known relatives, whom anyone is obligated to bury.

Noun

met mitzvah (plural meitei mitzvah)

  1. (Judaism) A deceased person who has no relatives or no known relatives, whom anyone is obligated to bury.

Forms of met mitzvah

pluralmeitei mitzvah

Origin of met mitzvah

Borrowed from Hebrew מת מצווה (mét mitsvá).

Questions about met mitzvah

What does met mitzvah mean?
Met mitzvah means a deceased person who has no relatives or no known relatives, whom anyone is obligated to bury.
What part of speech is met mitzvah?
Met mitzvah is a noun.
What is the plural of met mitzvah?
The plural of met mitzvah is meitei mitzvah.

Words near met mitzvah in the dictionary

  1. Mesía
  2. met
  3. met a sticky end
  4. met cute
  5. met halfway
  6. met mitzvah
  7. Met Office
  8. met one's maker
  9. met one's match
  10. met one's Waterloo
  11. met someone where they were

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: met mitzvah (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: “met mitzvah.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/met_mitzvah. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.