Etymology

sotah

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Today it means: An ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery. Full definition →

Hebrew סוֹטָה
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The story

  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromסוֹטָה“adulteress”
  2. English todaysotah

Borrowed from Hebrew סוֹטָה (“adulteress”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.