The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shekinah \She*ki"nah\, n. [Heb Talmud shek[=i]n[=a]h, fr.
sh[=a]kan to inhabit.]
The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when
resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat,
in the Tabernacle, or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term
used in the Targums and by the later Jews, and adopted by
Christians. [Written also Shechinah.]
--Dr. W. Smith (Bib.
Dict.)
Wiktionary
n. (context Judaism English) A visible or otherwise perceptible manifestation of the presence of God
Usage examples of "shekinah".
Shepherd Adams was our first surprise, the Shekinah Fellowship settlement was our second.
That God had guided me in a lucky guess, I suppose, and that within a couple of hours we would spot the telltale signs of fusion-drive damage and could scamper back to Shekinah and call Commodore Freitag down on them.
But after reading only a few pages of an academic book on Kabbalah, we may well find ourselves in a maze of discourse on the sefirot, the Shekinah, and the Shulchan Arukh.
Like the Greek Dike, Shekinah was said to have abandoned the earth when humankind became too evil.
For yet again it is told that, when the Merciful One made the worlds, first of all He created that Stone and gave it to the Divine One whom the Jews call Shekinah, and as she gazed upon it the universes arose and had being.
The light of the Shekinah was hidden, but there was something of a light in Mr.
Shekinah, had adhering, to himself the Light of the Shekinah, though his light was not so great as that of the Shekinah.
As we walked, he made good on his promise to explain about Shekinah and Balthial.