Aron Kodesh

[ Sephardic Hebrew ah-rawn-kaw-desh; Ashkenazic Hebrew awr-ohn koh-desh ]

nounHebrew.
  1. a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.

  • Also called Holy Ark, Ark .

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