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selihot

selihot is the alternative form of selichot.

Meaning of selichot

Noun

selichot pl (plural only)

  1. (Judaism, plural, plural-only) Jewish penitential poems and prayers, especially those said in the period leading up to the High Holidays, and on fast days.

Questions about selihot

What is selihot the alternative form of?
Selihot is the alternative form of selichot.

Words near selihot in the dictionary

  1. seligmannite
  2. Seligmans
  3. Seligs
  4. Seligson
  5. Seligsons
  6. selihot
  7. selihoth
  8. Selim
  9. Selimir
  10. Selimovic
  11. Selimovics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: selihot (page history and authors); selichot (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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