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shofar

/shoh-fer; Sephardic Hebrew shaw-fahr; Ashkenazic Hebrew shoh-fuhr, shoh-fahr/US // ˈʃoʊ fər; Sephardic Hebrew ʃɔˈfɑr; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈʃoʊ fər, ʃoʊˈfɑr //UK // (ˈʃəʊfɑː, Hebrew ʃɔˈfar) //

索法尔,索法里,庄稼人,庄严的誓言

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sho·fars, Hebrew sho·froth, sho·frot, sho·fros [Sephardic Hebrew shaw-frawt; Ashkenazic Hebrew shoh-frohs, shoh-frohs], /Sephardic Hebrew ʃɔˈfrɔt; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈʃoʊ froʊs, ʃoʊˈfroʊs/, Judaism.

    • : a ram's horn blown as a wind instrument, sounded in Biblical times chiefly to communicate signals in battle and announce certain religious occasions and in modern times chiefly at synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Examples

  • The sounds of the shofar are very peculiar and harsh, quite unlike the notes of any modern instrument.

  • The shrill call of the Shofar, or the soft sense-enslaving tones of the organ?

  • Dr. Beigel has made a most singular discovery concerning the tones of the shofar.

  • In the first place it never thunders at Tabernacles, and secondly, after the Rebbe's Shofar-blowing!

  • Then show the class a shofar or a picture of one and ask, "What is this?"

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