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mezuzoth

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me⋅zu⋅zah

[muh-zooz-uh; Seph. Heb. muh-zoo-zah; Ashk. Heb. muh-zoo-zuh]
–noun, plural -zu⋅zoth, -zu⋅zot, -zu⋅zos [Seph. Heb. -zoo-zawt; Ashk. Heb. -zoo-zohs] ; English. -zu⋅zahs. Judaism.
a parchment scroll inscribed on one side with the Biblical passages Deut. 6:4–9 and 11:13–21 and on the other side with the word Shaddai (a name applied to God), inserted in a small case or tube so that Shaddai is visible through an aperture in front, and attached by some Jews to the doorpost of the home.
Also, me⋅zu⋅za.


Origin:
1640–50; < Heb məzūzāh lit., doorpost
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mezuzah 
1650, from Heb., lit. "doorpost."
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