Definitions | genizah |
| noun (plural: genizoth)
- A storeroom located in or by a synagogue where are kept sacred Hebrew books that cannot be used (through damage or heretical teachings), but which cannot be discarded because they contain God's name.
- The Cairo Genizah was discovered in 1896
Etymology: Hebrew "hiding-place".
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