Sever vs Seder - What's the difference?
sever | seder |
To cut free.
* Bible, Matthew xiii. 49
To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
(legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.
(Judaism) The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover.
*2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 332:
*:On the same day, the State of Israel celebrated its first Passover seder and the United Nations, still meeting in those days at Flushing Meadow in Queens, voted to consider the Jewish state's application for membership.
(Judaism) One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided.
As a proper noun sever
is .As a noun seder is
(judaism) the ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of passover.sever
English
Verb
(en verb)- After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
- to sever the head from the body
- The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
- (Shakespeare)
- The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. — Ex. ix. 4.
- They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. — Macaulay.
- to sever an estate in joint tenancy
- (Blackstone)