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Ceremonial candelabrum
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menorah
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Hanukkah menorah , also chanukiah or hanukiah , ( menorat ḥanukkah , pl. menorot ) (also ḥanukkiyah , or chanukkiyah , pl. ḥanukkiyot / chanukkiyot , or Yiddish : חנוכּה לאמפּ khanike lomp , lit. : Hanukkah lamp) is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1886, from Hebrew menorah "candlestick," from Semitic stem n-w-r "to give light, shine" (compare Arabic nar "fire," manarah "candlestick, lighthouse, tower of a mosque," see minaret ).
Usage examples of menorah.
Our family tradition combined elements from both of their backgrounds, and although I had lighted the candles on a Hanukkah menorah earlier in the month, I always looked forward to decorating a tree and rediscovering the boxes of antique ornaments that my mother had collected throughout her life.
At Hanukkah, we lit the menorah, and my father and she gave gelt-not the foil-wrapped chocolate coins but real money.
So the priests, the Kohanim, took seven iron spits, covered them with wood, and crafted them into a makeshift menorah.
The oil, just barely enough for one day, burned for eight days, giving the Kohanim sufficient time to prepare and receive fresh uncontaminated oil that was fit for the menorah.
It probably said something disturbing about her psyche that she would rather chase a shipload of fugitives with an illegal plasma device than figure out how to display Klingon death icons alongside human menorahs in the Promenade without offending anybody's sensibilities.
The interior of the church was all like that-a mixture of styles and materials, announcing all sorts of possibilities but nothing specific, like an onion dome or a menorah.
You'll observe yontiff using nothing but virgin olive oil in your menorah, to celebrate the miracle?