minyan

¹

[ Sephardic Hebrew meen-yahn; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English min-yuhn ]

noun

, Hebrew.

, plural min·yan·im [meen-yah-, neem, min-, yaw, -nim], English min·yans.

1. the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.
2. such a group.

Minyan

²

[ min-yuhn ]

adjective

1. descended from Minyas.
2. being or pertaining to a gray, wheel-thrown pottery produced in ancient Greece during the early part of the Helladic period, c2000 b.c.

noun

1. Minyans. Also Min·yae [] the descendants of Minyas who inhabited Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolcus in Thessaly.

minyan

/ minˈjan; ˈmɪnjən /

noun

1. the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present for a religious service, namely, at least ten males over thirteen years of age

Word History and Origins

Origin of minyan¹

minyān literally, number

Word History and Origins

Origin of minyan¹

literally: number

Example Sentences

Then he left his home and fled from horse-rearing Argos and came to Minyan Orchomenus.

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There was scarcely a Minyan present at the evening services in the Shul.

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Date uncertain, but in Boeotia evidence that it ended before rise of 'Minyan' ware.

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She stood on the threshold of the house, and looked after her two men starting for a distant Minyan.

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"The Minyan is there," and Mattes pointed his finger at the thatched roofs shining in the sunset.

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