etrog

etrog
/es"rohg, -reuhg, et"-/; Seph. Heb. /et rddawg"/; Ashk. Heb. /es rddohg"/, n., pl. etrogs, etrogim Seph. Heb. /et rddaw geem"/; Ashk. Heb. /es rddoh"gim/.
Judaism. a citron for use with the lulav during the Sukkoth festival service. Also, ethrog, esrog.
[ < Heb ethrogh]

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▪ ritual plant
also spelled  Ethrog, or Esrog (Hebrew: “citron”),  plural  Etrogim, Ethrogim, Esrogim, Etrogs, Ethrogs, or Esrogs,  
 one of four species of plants used during the Jewish celebration of Sukkoth (Feast of Booths), a festival of gratitude to God for the bounty of the earth that is celebrated in autumn at the end of the harvest festival. For ritual purposes the etrog must be perfect in stem and body. It is generally placed in an ornate receptacle and was at one time widely used as a symbol of Judaism.

      The other ritual plants used for Sukkoth are a palm branch, or lulab (lulav), myrtle (hadas), and willow (ʿarava). The etrog is held in the left hand during the service while the right hand holds the palm branch with myrtle and willow entwined. On the seventh day of Sukkoth the four species are carried seven times around the synagogue. During the singing of specified Psalms (Hallel), the etrog and lulab are waved upward and downward and toward the four points of the compass to indicate the omnipresence of God.

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