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me|nor|ah
me|nor|ah «muh NR uh, -NOHR-», noun.
1. Also, Menorah. a candlestick with eight branches, used during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Many menorahs have a ninth branch for the shames, or extra candle, used to light the others. Each night an additional candle is lit until finally all are lit on the last night.
2. Menorah, a candlestick having seven branches, in the ancient Temple at Jerusalem, whose flame was fed by consecrated oil. According to the Apocrypha, when the Temple was rededicated after Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers overthrew the Syrians (about 165 B.C.) the Menorah burned for eight days with only a single day's supply of oil.
╂[< Hebrew manorah]

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