phylactery
- n (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer
- Sixth shows a pool of blood, a pigeon whose head is Yod; many hands partly blotting out the name of the Lord, partly blotting out a phylactery.
- On another occasion, when a local bailiff came to extract a bribe and ended up trying to run off with a tefillin, a sacred phylactery, Abraham attacked him mercilessly.