Definitions for Karaite

Karaite Kar·a·ite

Spelling: [kar-uh-ahyt]
IPA: /ˈkær əˌaɪt/

Karaite is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Karaite (aaeikrt).

Definitions for Karaite

noun

  1. a member of a sect, founded in Persia in the 8th century a.d. by the religious leader Anan ben David, that rejected the Talmud and the teachings of the rabbis in favor of strict adherence to the Bible as the only source of Jewish law and practice.

Origin of Karaite

1720-30; Hebrew qarāʿ(īm) (equivalent to qarā Biblical scholar, literally, reader + īm plural suffix) + -ite1

Examples for Karaite

Aaron ben Elijah agrees in the main with his Karaite predecessors that Job was not punished for any fault he had committed.

Benjamin Nahavendi, Karaite and founder of the Makariyites, 149 f.

In Askalon there lived, at about this time, 300 Samaritan and 40 Karaite families.

The Karaite disturbances also contributed to lessen the authority of the Exilarch.

I mean the Mohammedan schools and sects, and the Karaite discussions which were closely modelled after them.

He had carried on a harmless correspondence with a Karaite Chacham in the neighboring village of Kukizow.

His neighbour was a Karaite, drifted here from another community.

What a contrast there is between Saadiah and his Karaite opponent!

He was more at home in the Karaite literature than previous Rabbanites had been.

Less famously, the synagogue of the Karaite sect in Abbasiyya was also restored under her tenure.

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