单词 | shema |
释义 | Sheman. The first word of the verse Deuteronomy vi. 4 used as a name for three portions of the Scriptures, Deuteronomy vi. 4–9, xi. 13–21, Numbers xv. 37–41, to be repeated twice daily by all adult Jewish males, and used as a Jewish confession of faith. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] credoeOE trothc1175 creance1393 trutha1400 symbol1490 confession1536 judgement1609 persuasion1623 creed1676 Shemaa1699 shahāda1885 creditability1886 a1699 I. Abendana Disc. Eccl. & Civil Polity of Jews (1706) iv. 106 Every day we use an office containing three sections of the law, commonly styled Shemang, i.e. Hear. 1816 J. Allen Mod. Judaism xix. 331 Another essential part of the daily service..is the reading of three portions of scripture. The first of these portions beginning with the word Shema... This term is applied to all the portions taken together, and the recital of them is called Kiriath Shema, the Reading of the Shema. To recite these passages twice every day they maintain to be expressly enjoined. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 155/1 The first additions to the Shemah formed the introductory thanks~giving for the renewed day. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. vii. lxi. 221 The Shemah, wherein we briefly confess the divine Unity, is the chief devotional exercise of the Hebrew. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 503/2 One is in duty bound to recite the Shema῾ twice a day. 1926 Brit. Weekly 5 Aug. 367/3 Esther..joins in that immemorial declaration of her people the Shemang or Confession of Unity. 1936 E. Underhill Worship (ed. 2) i. ii. 28 The Jews' daily repetition of the Shema, the Christians' ritual use of the Lord's Prayer, and the Moslems' of the First Sura, are all justified by psychology no less than by religion. 1949 W. F. Albright Archaeol. Palestine x. 221 In 1902 the Nash fragment containing the Ten Commandments and the Shema (‘Hear, O Israel..’) was discovered in the Faiyum. 1972 J. Caine Hamlet, my Boy vi. 86 He reminded himself that a Jew was supposed to say the Shema in the hour of death. 1977 H. Kaplan Damascus Cover (1978) xii. 123 ‘Don't you know the Shema?’ She was either a Jewess or a highly trained agent. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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