Mahzor Definition

mäKHzər, mäKHzôr
machzorim, machzors, mahzorim, mahzors
noun
The Jewish prayer book that contains the liturgy for festivals and holy days.
Webster's New World

Alternative spelling of machzor.

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Other Word Forms of Mahzor

Noun

Singular:
mahzor
Plural:
mahzorim, mahzors

Origin of Mahzor

  • Mishnaic Hebrew maḥăzôr cycle, mahzor from ḥāzar to go around, return ḥḏr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mahzor Sentence Examples

  • Half a century later the famous Gaon Seadiah, also of Sura, issued his Siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic. Besides the Siddur, or order for Sabbaths and general use, there is the Mahzor (cycle) for festivals and fasts.

  • The Mahzor of each rite is also distinguished by hymns (piyyutim) composed by authors (payyetanim) of the district.

  • More conclusive still is the fact that in a number of old Mahzor MSS.

  • His poetical gifts he turned to admirable account in his translation of the Festival Prayers (Mahzor, 9 vols., 1855), a new feature of which was the metrical rendering of the medieval Hebrew hymns.

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Words Starting With

MMAMAH

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