petuhah
English
Alternative forms
- petuchah
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew פְּתוּחָה (“open”), feminine of פָּתוּחַ.
Noun
petuhah (plural petuhot or petuhoth)
- (Judaism) 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.
Coordinate terms
- setumah