tefillin

or te·phil·lin

[ Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tuh-fil-in; Sephardic Hebrew tuh-fee-leen ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

, Judaism.

1605–15; < Hebrew təphillīn, akin to təphillāh prayer

Some of the women had wrapped themselves in traditionally male religious garments like tallit and tefillin, and others had not.

These phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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