shohet

or sho·chet

[ Sephardic Hebrew shaw-khet; Ashkenazic Hebrew shoh-kheyt, shoi-khit; English shoh-khit ]

noun

, Hebrew.

, plural shohe·tim [shoh, kh, -, teem], English sho·hets.

1. a person certified by a rabbi or Jewish court of law to slaughter animals for food in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shohet¹

shōḥēṭ literally, one who slaughters

Example Sentences

Such was the case with Shohet, who fled Iraq in 1970, when only 3,100 Jews remained.

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