sotah
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Hebrew סוֹטָה (“adulteress”)
Noun[edit]
sotah (uncountable)
- (Judaism) An ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 796:
- The ordeal of the sotah worked only in an age when people believed in its power to expose the guilty and exonerate the innocent.