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shofars

shofars is the plural of shofar.

Meaning of shofar

Noun

shofar (plural shofars or shofroth or shofarot or shofaroth)

  1. (Judaism, countable) A ram’s-horn trumpet, used for Jewish ritual purposes.
    • Thaddeus the fluteplayer had, it seems, found a ram’s horn or shofar, and he was blowing this not in the normal manner of an angry summons but so as to produce a melody of four notes, like a camp call to dinner or parade.1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked

Questions about shofars

What is shofars the plural of?
Shofars is the plural of shofar.

Words near shofars in the dictionary

  1. shoey
  2. shoeys
  3. shofar
  4. shofarot
  5. shofaroth
  6. shofars
  7. shofet
  8. shofetim
  9. shofets
  10. Shoff
  11. shoffice

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