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shophar

shophar is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of shophar

pluralshophars
pluralshopharot
pluralshopharoth
pluralshophroth

Questions about shophar

What is shophar the alternative spelling of?
Shophar is the alternative spelling of shofar.

Words near shophar in the dictionary

  1. shopgoers
  2. shopgrift
  3. shopgrifted
  4. shopgrifting
  5. shopgrifts
  6. shophar
  7. shopharot
  8. shopharoth
  9. shophars
  10. shophet
  11. shophetim

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