Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun haphtorah

1 sense of haphtorah

Sense 1
Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah -- (a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah)
       INSTANCE OF=> excerpt, excerption, extract, selection -- (a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings")