phylactery

1. 1.

   (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer

   Synonymstefillin

   Broaderreminder

   Judaism

Other forms of phylactery

plural

phylacteries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about phylactery

What does phylactery mean?

phylactery means "(Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer".

How many syllables are in phylactery?

phylactery has 4 syllables: phy-lac-te-ry. The stress falls on "lac".

What is another word for phylactery?

Close synonyms include tefillin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phylactery a common word?

phylactery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.