# petuhah

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An open parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart in roughly the same way as a paragraph would be in modern text.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew פְּתוּחָה (“open”), feminine of פָּתוּחַ.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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