averah

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noun

A sin.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounaverah (plural averot or averoth or averos)

plural averot · plural averoth · plural averos · alternative avera · alternative aveira · alternative aveirah · alternative aveyrah

  1. JudaismA sin.

    It's an averah to tell a lie, even if it would benefit us.

    2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Is Christianity, jealous and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist, an ethnic cleanser urging His people on to acts of genocide & child abuse…”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet)

Origin

  1. Hebrewעֲבֵרָה
  2. Englishaverah

Borrowed from Hebrew עֲבֵרָה ('averah).

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APA

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Chicago

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