tefillin
or te·phil·lin
[ Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tuh-fil-in; Sephardic Hebrew tuh-fee-leen ]
/ Ashkenazic Hebrew, English təˈfɪl ɪn; Sephardic Hebrew tə fiˈlin /
plural noun Judaism.
the phylacteries.
Origin of tefillin
1605–15; < Hebrew
təphillīn, akin to
təphillāh prayer
Words nearby tefillin
Example sentences from the Web for tefillin
Some of the women had wrapped themselves in traditionally male religious garments like tallit and tefillin, and others had not.
These phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men.