what does phylactery mean?
PHYLACTERY as NOUN
- Meaning
- (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin)
- traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) phylactery is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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