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Meanings of phylacteries in inglês
Small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, worn by male observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.
Usage of phylacteries in inglês
1
The smith laid aside his book and his phylacteries and grasped his hammer.
2
His devotions over, he hurriedly took the phylacteries from his head and hand.
3
Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.
4
I don't want you to 'make broad your phylacteries,' you know.
5
The wearing of phylacteries indicates that they were regarded by the Jews as amulets.
6
For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
7
He wore no phylacteries, and was as far away as possible from Pecksniffian pretensions.
8
The man at the till is wearing phylacteries (amulets) under his shirt.
9
Do you think I could stand having my hands and feet tied with phylacteries?
10
He wore the phylacteries all day, that he might be reminded of his religious duties.
11
He who neglects to wear phylacteries transgresseth eight commandments.
12
Women, slaves, and minors are not commanded to read the Shemang, or to wear phylacteries.
13
We must make broad our platform, not our phylacteries.
14
The phylacteries of our modern Pharisees are as broad as those of the old Jewish saints.
15
Ephraim proceeded to wind the phylacteries round his arm, and commenced to say his prayers softly.
16
Some prayed next to their beds, phylacteries strapped to their foreheads and wound about their arms.
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