shohet
or sho·chet
[ Sephardic Hebrew shaw-khet; Ashkenazic Hebrew shoh-kheyt, shoi-khit; English shoh-khit ]
noun,plural shohe·tim [shohkh-teem], /ʃoʊxˈtim/, English sho·hets.Hebrew.
a person certified by a rabbi or Jewish court of law to slaughter animals for food in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
Origin of shohet
1shōḥēṭ literally, one who slaughters
- Compare shehitah.
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How to use shohet in a sentence
Such was the case with shohet, who fled Iraq in 1970, when only 3,100 Jews remained.
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