Meanings
zeroah1
- alternativeAlternative spelling of zeroa.
It is preferable that the zeroah (roasted bone) and the beitzah (roasted egg) which are placed on the Seder plate (k'arah) be prepared before Shabbos.
2008, The Chasdei Hashem Haggadah, page xxxi2 more examples
The seder table is laid out with special requirements. There is the seder plate on which is found foods through which the redemption story can be told. There is the zeroah, a shank bone of a lamb.
2000, Kevin Scully, Sensing the Passion: Reflections During Lent, →ISBN, page 70The zeroah represents the Paschal sacrifice and the reason the shank or foreleg is used is to commemorate the verse "And with a strong hand and an outstretched arm did the L-rd your G-d bring you out..." (Devarim 7:19).
2004, Yochanan Kirshblum, Thinking Outside the Box
Zeroah2
- Evangelicalism ChristianityThe Messiah, strength of God, or spirit of sacrifice.
Then God showed salvation to the entire earth through the Zeroah.
2017, Christine Graef, The Jewish Concern for the Church, →ISBN2 more examples
The strength and might we see in Moses is a picture of the Messiah who is the "Right hand of G-d, known as the Zeroah'.
2008, K.C. Stricker, Coming Out of Egypt: The Journey Out of Idolatry Begins, →ISBNToday, take part in the power of the Zeroah. Let go to apprehend, surrender to overcome, and die to yourself that you might find life.
2016, Jonathan Cahn, The Book of Mysteries, →ISBN, page 37
Origin
- Hebrewזְרוֹעַ
- EnglishZeroah
From Hebrew זְרוֹעַ (z'róa', literally “arm”).
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