בֵּית יִרְאָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Place of Worship / Church

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A term for a church or a place of prayer of another religion.

("Here is the Pole who was here with the Pole who died (in the place called) their new Beit Yirah" – Responsa of Rabbi Akiva Eiger, first edition, Siman 109, and also: "And behold again a street. And behold a white Beit Yirah. And behold gardens, a yard, houses" – Shalom Aleichem, We Sneak Across the Border, 125, and also: "The bells of their Beit Yirah began to ring. His rest was taken and he jumped from his bed" – Agnon, Temol Shilshom, 262, and also: "They sit on the steps of the house / and in a basket gilded with fruit / fat honeycombs of legs / from Beit Yirah like fruit" – Lea Goldberg, From My Old House, A)