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sotah

sotah noun: an ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.

Noun

sotah (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) An ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.
    • The ordeal of the sotah worked only in an age when people believed in its power to expose the guilty and exonerate the innocent.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 796

Origin of sotah

Borrowed from Hebrew סוֹטָה (“adulteress”).

Questions about sotah

What does sotah mean?
Sotah means an ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.
What part of speech is sotah?
Sotah is a noun.

Words near sotah in the dictionary

  1. Sotadean
  2. sotadic
  3. Sotadic Zone
  4. Sotadics
  5. sotagliflozin
  6. sotah
  7. Sotak
  8. Sotaks
  9. sotalol
  10. sotatercept
  11. Sotavento

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