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A synagogue (from Greek: transliterated synagogē, meaning "assembly") is a Jewish or Samaritan house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal. In modern Hebrew a synagogue is called either a beyt knesset, meaning "house of assembly"; or beyt t'fila (also written as bet tepilla ), meaning "house of prayer", in Yiddish shul, from the German for "school," and in Ladino esnoga. In the Hebrew term bet te pilla Beth means "house" and te pilla (תּהלּה) means "prayer". "Beth Te pilla" is derived from the cognate verb, "hitpallel" (פּליל) which is also spelled as pa^li^yl (pronounced: paleel) which implies "estimate, judge, render a verdict" thus "hitpallel" means "to pray" or "to seek a judgment for oneself" or "to plead". Here the underlying meaning of "te pilla" or "prayer" is a conception of petitionary prayer that has a sense of judgment or a "plea" in the court of judgment. This reduces the word root to *P*L*L as "intervene, interpose" and the act of intervention is an act of *P'LiLah*. (Note: the first two alphabets of the word "plea" is also PL). The Hebrew cognate word "hitpallel" gives a rendering to Beth Te Pilla or synagogue as a "house of prayer" or as a "house to plead".
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