chatzot

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Borrowed from Hebrew חצות.

Noun

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chatzot (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) The time exactly halfway between sunset and sunrise; midnight.
    • 2004 June 10, cindys, “God studies Torah and wears Tefillin?”, in alt.messianic[1] (Usenet):
      A wind would blow every night at chatzos and cause King David's harp to play, and this would wake him up and he would study torah.