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shiur - Jewish English Lexicon

shiur

Pronunciations

shiur (shee-OHR) listen
shiur (SHEE-or) listen
shiur (SHEE-yurr) listen

Definitions

  • n. A lesson, lecture, or discourse on biblical or rabbinic texts or other Jewish concepts.

  • n. A measure, size, or rate.

  • n. A limit.

Example Sentences

  • "Do you know what the rabbi's shiur is on?"

  • "Were you at the rabbi's shiur last Tuesday?" "What was it on, Talmud?" (Glinert)

Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH שיעור shiúr > Y שיעור shier

    • 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
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa
      • Australia / New Zealand

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
      • Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
      • Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).

      Alternative Spellings

      shier

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