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Meanings of phylactery in English
Portuguese
tefilin Spanish
filacteria Synonyms
Examples for "tefillin"
Examples for "tefillin"
1
However it started, tefillin have evolved into an enormously intricate ritual.
2
I ask Yossi, one of my Orthodox advisers, to be my tefillin-wrapping tutor.
3
That woman had refused to discard tefillin that were found in a suitcase.
4
The tefillin is tight, creating six little lumps of forearm.
5
She told Haaretz newspaper: The gentleman I tended to first still had his tefillin on.
Usage of phylactery in English
1
It is inscribed on a phylactery, in the following manner:
2
He was expected to wear a phylactery on his forehead inscribed "I AM A BIOLOGIST."
3
I do not know how Kirstie became convinced that, whoever or whatever the enemy might be, Mr. Johnstone was the phylactery.
4
I unbound my frontlet, taking off the black phylactery, whose memorable sentence, written in white letters, had been visible to myself alone.
5
Philemo once asked Rabbi (the Holy), "If a man has two heads, on which is he to put the phylactery?"
6
He was, perhaps, something of a Civil Service Pharisee, and wore on his forehead a broad phylactery, stamped with the mark of Crown property.
7
The smith laid aside his book and his phylacteries and grasped his hammer.
8
His devotions over, he hurriedly took the phylacteries from his head and hand.
9
Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.
10
I don't want you to 'make broad your phylacteries,' you know.
11
The wearing of phylacteries indicates that they were regarded by the Jews as amulets.
12
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
13
He wore no phylacteries, and was as far away as possible from Pecksniffian pretensions.
14
The man at the till is wearing phylacteries (amulets) under his shirt.
15
Do you think I could stand having my hands and feet tied with phylacteries?
16
He wore the phylacteries all day, that he might be reminded of his religious duties.
Frequent collocations
Phylactery through the time