Word.ws English Dictionary

shekhinah

shekhinah is the alternative form of shechinah.

Meaning of shechinah

Noun

shechinah (plural shechinahs)

  1. (Judaism) the presence of God.
    • The Sh'khinah suffers with Israel in exile and will return with it at the time of redemption.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 837

Forms of shekhinah

pluralshekhinahs

Questions about shekhinah

What is shekhinah the alternative form of?
Shekhinah is the alternative form of shechinah.

Words near shekhinah in the dictionary

  1. shekeres
  2. shekeré
  3. shekerés
  4. Shekhani
  5. Shekhawati
  6. shekhinah
  7. shekhinahs
  8. Shekhupūra
  9. shekinah
  10. shekinahs
  11. Shekkacho

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shekhinah (page history and authors); shechinah (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: “shekhinah.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shekhinah. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.