S vs Phylactery - What's the difference?
s | phylactery |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(Judaism) Either of the two small leather cases, containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer; the tefilla.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:
* 2005 , Edward Mack, Phylactery, Nextbible.[http://net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=Phylactery]
Any small object worn for its magical or supernatural power; an amulet or charm.
* 2006 , Don Skemer, Binding Words Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages . Penn State Press, 2006. p. 136n:[http://books.google.com/books?id=o-5VpyGAHSgC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=phylactery+flemish&source=web&ots=5KqLz4kA0W&sig=s0Z66YfpuEyrKr72Ffu3fAEq7ns]
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun phylactery is
(judaism) either of the two small leather cases, containing biblical scrolls, worn by jewish men at morning prayer; the tefilla.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}phylactery
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(phylacteries)- They sett abroade there philateris , and make large borders on there garmenttes, and love to sytt uppermooste at feastes [...].
- "Every male, who at the age of 13 becomes a "son of the Law" (bar mitswah), must wear the phylactery and perform the accompanying ceremonial."
- "According to the decreta issued by the archbishop of Utrecht in 1372-75, the word phylactery pertained either to amulets on separate sheets or to entire books."