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Haftarah definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah [syn: Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah]

Merriam Webster's

or haftorah noun Etymology: Hebrew haph??r?h conclusion Date: 1723 one of the biblical selections from the Books of the Prophets read after the parashah in the Jewish synagogue service