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Shechinah

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[shuh-kee-nuh, -kahy-, shuh-khee-nah, shuh-khee-nuh] / ʃəˈki nə, -ˈkaɪ-, ʃə xiˈnɑ, ʃəˈxi nə /

noun

Theology.
  1. Shekhinah.


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The Temple guards were exiled, but the Shechinah was not exiled with them.

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

Thus should he begin—'In the united name of the Holy and Blessed One and His Shechinah, through that Hidden and Concealed One! and in the name of all Israel!'

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

Where do we read that the Shechinah is present everywhere?

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

Never did the Shechinah at Horeb, or Sinai, or the Tabernacle, seem so resplendent as on this Mount Hermon.

From A Life of St. John for the Young by George Ludington Weed

Not more surely had the Shechinah dwelt in the tabernacle of old, than did it indwell His nature, though too thickly shrouded to be seen by ordinary and casual eyes.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

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