chatzot

English

Alternative forms

• chatzos

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew חצות

Noun

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.