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semicha

semicha is the alternative form of semikhah.

Meaning of semikhah

Noun

semikhah (countable and uncountable, plural semikhot)

  1. (Judaism) The ordination of a rabbi.
    • One black hat shul in my neighborhood, when looking for a new pulpit rabbi, listed as one of their requirements that the rabbi needed to hold a four-year secular university degree in addition to his semicha.2010 March 8, cindys, “How Nazism Shaped Islamist Views”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)

Forms of semicha

pluralsemichot
pluralsemichoth

Questions about semicha

What is semicha the alternative form of?
Semicha is the alternative form of semikhah.

Words near semicha in the dictionary

  1. semicenturies
  2. semicentury
  3. semicerebellectomies
  4. semicerebellectomy
  5. semiceremonial
  6. semicha
  7. semichaotic
  8. semicharacteristic
  9. semicharacteristics
  10. semicharmed
  11. semichelate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semicha (page history and authors); semikhah (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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