Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ornamented pointer used to mark one's place when reading out loud from a scroll of the Torah in a synagogue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small tapering hand with outstretched index-finger, made of precious metal or ivory, beautifully carved. It is used to indicate the words to the reader while he is reading the Scriptures in the synagogue from the scroll called
Sepher Torah .
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- noun The letter
ⴷ in theTifinagh alphabet. - noun Judaism A
pointer used in the ritual ofTorah -reading.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Hebrew word for hand is the word yad; yadah means to “throw out the hand” or to worship with extended hands.
BIBLE STUDY: Raising your hands in church Nomad 2009
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The Hebrew word for hand is the word yad; yadah means to “throw out the hand” or to worship with extended hands.
Archive 2009-03-01 Nomad 2009
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Torah readers use a pointer called a yad, which means hand, to keep their places as they read from the scroll.
InterfaithFamily.com 2009
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Torah readers use a pointer called a yad, which means hand, to keep their places as they read from the scroll.
InterfaithFamily.com 2009
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He wrapped the leather strap of the shel rosh around my forehead, the shel yad round and round my left arm, down to my palm and several times around my middle finger.
Adam Valen Levinson: Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: A Christmas Story Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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He wrapped the leather strap of the shel rosh around my forehead, the shel yad round and round my left arm, down to my palm and several times around my middle finger.
Adam Valen Levinson: Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: A Christmas Story Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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Its yad sdrawkcab (backwards day) in tea-bagger land.
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This proto-Mashariki term, which remained in use in the PNECB and proto-Ruvu eras, derives from proto-Bantu * - yad - "to enter" and can be argued to convey, as does the East Ruvu * kuingiza, the idea that an initiate "enters" into the seclusion of the circumcision camp to undergo its ceremonies.
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* Jihad by the hand (jihad bil yad) - a struggle of good against evil waged by actions or with one's wealth, such as going on the Hajj pilgrimage (seen as the best jihad for women), taking care of elderly parents, or political activity for furthering the cause of Islam.
Jihad JDsg 2007
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And so, as they say in Hebrew, "yad sloof lirpa yppah"!
Evidence for a Semitic Exclave in the Lower Alpine Region James F. McGrath 2009
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Rod used by readers of the Torah as a pointer for following text. (From The Phrontistery)
June 30, 2009