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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MIKVAH

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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MIKVAH

mikvah  [mikˈvɑ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIKVAH

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determiner
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Mikvah is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MIKVAH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

mikvah

Mikveh

Mikveh (sometimes spelled mikvah, mikve, or mikva) (Hebrew: מִקְוֶה / מקווה, Modern mikve Tiberian miqwe; plural: mikva'ot or mikves (Yiddish) Hebrew: מִקְוִים / מִקְווֹת / מִקְוָאוֹת) is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism. The word "mikveh", as used in the Hebrew Bible, literally means a "collection" – generally, a collection of water. Several biblical regulations specify that full immersion in water is required to regain ritual purity after ritually impure incidents have occurred. A person was required to be ritually pure in order to enter the Temple. In addition, a convert to Judaism is required to immerse in a mikveh as part of the his/her conversion, and a woman is required to immerse in a mikveh after her menstrual period or childbirth before she and her husband can resume marital relations.

Definition of mikvah in the English dictionary

The definition of mikvah in the dictionary is a pool used esp by women for ritual purification after their monthly period.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MIKVAH


mikveh
mikˈvɑ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIKVAH

migration
migrational
migrationist
migrator
migratory
miha
mihi
MIHL
mihrab
mikado
mike
mike up
mikveh
mil
mil.
miladi
miladies
milady
milage

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIKVAH

Bar Mitzvah
Bas Mitzvah
Bat Mitzvah
bathmitsvah
bathmitzvah
bathmizvah
halavah
halvah
Jehovah
mitzvah
shivah
sit shivah

Synonyms and antonyms of mikvah in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mikvah» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MIKVAH

Find out the translation of mikvah to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mikvah from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mikvah» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

mikvah
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mikve
570 millions of speakers

English

mikvah
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mikvah
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ميكفاه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

миква
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mikvê
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mikvah
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mikvé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mikvah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mikwe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ミクヴェ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mikvah
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mikvah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mikvah
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிக்வா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिकवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mikvah
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mikvah
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mykwa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

миква
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mikvah
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

mikvah
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mikvah
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

mikvah
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mikvah
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mikvah

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MIKVAH»

The term «mikvah» is regularly used and occupies the 104.178 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MIKVAH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mikvah

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIKVAH»

Discover the use of mikvah in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mikvah and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Murder at the Mikvah
Mikvah: A body of water used for ritual immersion in Judaism.
Sarah Segal, 2009
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Total immersion: a mikvah anthology
In this best-selling collection of almost fifty essays and stories about the mikvah (the Jewish ritual bath), women and men contribute their thoughts on this ancient Jewish tradition.
Rivkah Slonim, Liz Rosenberg, 2006
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The Creative Jewish Wedding Book: A Hands-on Guide to New & ...
In Sephardic/Mizrachi communities, the groom was also celebrated by his father, his father-in-law, and his male relatives and friends with a festive party, minus the henna. Immersing in the Mikvah The mikvah (Hebrew for “gathering of water”) ...
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, 2009
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Finding the God of Noah: The Spiritual Journey of a Baptist ...
Our goal was to examine the origin of Christian baptism and its roots in the Jewish Mikvah (water purification). The origin of Christianity is found in Judaism as practiced during the Second Temple period by the various sects. From aTalmudic ...
J. David Davis, 1996
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New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the ...
"Many physicians," the modern mikvah manuals note, "are of the op nion that it is the observance of the Mosaic ritual laws . . . which accounts fo1 the low incidence of [these diseases]."113 Influenced by the eugenics movement of the interwar ...
Jenna Weissman Joselit, 1990
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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Native ...
Here, too, marking time, counting days, and making sure that the visit to the mikvah takes place at the correct moment have tremendous import. The sexual fate of the couple, as such, lays in the hands of women and in their knowledge as to ...
Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon, 2006
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The Everything Jewish Wedding Book: Mazel tov! From the ...
You then walk into the mikvah waters and the mikvah attendant will watch to be sure that when you dunk under the mikvah water all of your body and hair go fully under the water. For most women, the most efficient way to immerse the entire ...
Rabbi Hyim Shafner, 2008
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Biomedical Ethics and Jewish Law
Use of the Mikvah by Women Fearful of Contracting AIDS The Talmud states that if wine or olive sap falls into a ritual bath or ritualarium (mikvah) and changes its color, it becomes invalid.99 Based on this ruling, some rabbis prohibit the ...
Fred Rosner, 2001
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Holy Days: The World Of The Hasidic Family
convert who enters the mikvah because it is a place of spiritual cleansing and rebirth. According to tradition, a convert is actually a Jewish soul that happened to get caught in a gentile body, and immersion in the mikvah merely frees that soul ...
Lis Harris, 2012
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"We are Here": New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in ...
While in some Orthodox communities men may have had the custom of visiting the mikvah (ritual bath) on Friday afternoon before the Sabbath and before the start of holidays, the mikvah was expressly the legal obligation of married women .
Avinoam J. Patt, Michael Berkowitz, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIKVAH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mikvah is used in the context of the following news items.
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Israel goes Nuclear
... following the discovery by the Shimshoni family of a perfectly-preserved 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath (mikvah) directly under the living ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
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Society For Crypto-Judaic Studies Hosts 25th Annual Conference In …
My mother, who had been at my baptism of course, was at my mikvah,” said Valdez-Valle. “And there was just something that happened when I ... «WLRN, Jul 15»
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Israel Chief Rabbis Sued Over Women's Mikvah Incidents
Mikva2 “The mikvah is an incredibly vulnerable place. Women have rights there as well. There is no other public service that demands that ... «FailedMessiah.com, Jul 15»
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What one Israeli couple found while undergoing a home renovation
A mikvah is a pool of water - some of it from a natural source - in which observant married Jewish women are required to dip once a month, ... «Colorado Springs Gazette, Jul 15»
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God is a verb: “Orange Is the New Black” dares to show faith in a …
... Cindy came along and mic dropped on the whole season when she dunked those massive Afro Puffs in a lake while performing her mikvah. «Salon, Jul 15»
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Sunny Isles Beach condo tower approved after downsizing
However, it would have a mikvah, a Jewish cleansing bath. The average size of the units was reduced from 1,750 square feet to 1,600 square ... «South Florida Business Journal, Jul 15»
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From Sweden to Morocco, with Interactions and Advice from the …
I established a yeshivah there—which was very successful, and attracted hundreds of students from the surrounding areas—and I also built a mikvah there. «Chabad.org, Jul 15»
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Jerusalem Family Finds Ancient Mikvah Under Living Room Floor
But when a family in Jerusalem broke through their living room floor, they uncovered a 2,000-year-old ritual bath (mikvah) and pottery vessels ... «The Jewish Voice, Jul 15»
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Sunny Isles project includes mikvah
Verzasca Group, a South Florida based real estate development firm, is planning to build a mikvah, a bath used for the purpose of ritual ... «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Mikvah-Peeping Rabbi Appeals Prison Sentence
Freundel, who was sentenced in May to 6 1/2 years for videotaping dozens of women at a Washington, D.C., mikvah, is arguing that he should ... «The Jewish Week, Jul 15»

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