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- Hebrew · borrowed fromפְּתוּחָה“open”
- English todaypetuhah
Borrowed from Hebrew פְּתוּחָה (“open”), feminine of פָּתוּחַ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
petuhah
Today it means: An open parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart in roughly the same way as a paragraph would be in modern text. Full definition →
Hebrew פְּתוּחָה