(storing) a place for storing damaged or worn-out books or ritual objects containing the four-letter Tetragrammaton, the divine name of God. According to halachah, such objects could not be destroyed, but were hidden so that they would not be defiled. When the genizah could hold no more, its contents were buried in a cemetery. The genizah was usually a room attached to the synagogue. The most famous of these is the Cairo Genizah, discovered in 1896 in the attic of the Ezra Synagogue in Fostat (Old Cairo), where most of the lost Hebrew book of Ben Sira was discovered.
A "cemetary" or repository for books, Torah scrolls, and other documents containing the Name(s) of God which are too old or damaged to be used. Documents containing the Name(s) of God are not to be destroyed.
A storehouse for damaged or defective Hebrew writings and ritual articles.
A place in a synagogue set aside to store both worn-out and heretical or disgraced Hebrew books or papers.
(Hebrew: "storing") In Jewish architecture: A place, often beneath the bema of a synagogue, for storing books or ritual objects that have become unusable; often used as the synagogue's "treasury".
Storage place for unused scrolls
(Hebrew, "hiding") - a hiding place or storeroom, usually connected with a Jewish synagogue, for worn-out holy books. The most famous is the Cairo Genizah, which contained books and documents that provide source material for Jewish communities living under Islamic rule from about the 9th through the 12th centuries. It was discovered at the end of the 19th century.
a burial place for worn-out sacred texts
a place where worn-out ritual objects, as well as any piece of paper on which the four-letter Hebrew name of God is found, can be placed for sacred storage and/or eventual burial
a repository for damaged or aged sacred Jewish texts)
A genizah or geniza (Hebrew: "storage"; plural: genizot) is the store-room or depository in a synagogue, usually specifically for worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics that were stored there before they could receive a proper cemetery burial, it being forbidden to throw away writings containing the name of God (even personal letters and legal contracts could open with an invocation of God). In practice, genizot also contained writings of a secular nature, with or without the customary opening invocation, and also contained writings in other languages that use the Hebrew alphabet (Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Ladino, Yiddish).