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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.
- 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.
- such a group.
Minyan
2[ min-yuhn ]
adjective
- descended from Minyas.
- 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
- Minyans. Also Min·yae [] the descendants of Minyas who inhabited Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolcus in Thessaly.
minyan
/ ˈmɪnjən; minˈjan /
noun
- 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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of minyan1
minyān literally, number
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Word History and Origins
Origin of minyan1
literally: number
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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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