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Sefirat Ha'Omer en · NOUN

Etymology

Transliteration of Hebrew סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר

Meanings

  1. (Judaism, uncountable) The counting of the Omer; the ritual of stating the specific day of the Omer.
    • The forty-nine words in the psalm also correspond to the seven days of Sefirat Ha'omer and the seven verses in the psalm correspond to the seven weeks one counts the Omer. 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 208:

Synonyms

sefira · omer · sefirah · sefiras haomer · counting of the Omer