refue

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Pronunciations

refue (reh-FOO-uh) listen

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Definitions

  • n. Recovery; healing.

Example Sentences

  • "In my Shemoneh Esrei, I add names in for ill people in the Refa’einu prayer. I am unsure as to what really qualifies for inclusion and when you should remove their name from your prayers. So typical examples are – a person who has an ongoing illness that is not life threatening but they could do with a refuah eg Alzheimer’s/ arthritis, etc" (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y רפֿואה refue

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      refua, refuah, refueh

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