noun
also she·ki·na or she·chi·na or she·chi·nah or sche·chi·na shə̇ˈḵēnə, -ˈkēnə, -ˈkīnə
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Hebrew shĕkhīnāh
: the presence of God in the world conceived by Jewish and later by Christian theologians as manifested in natural and especially supernatural phenomena (as the burning bush or the cloud on Sinai's summit) or as manifested in history through a mystical as opposed to revelational intervention in human affairs or as manifested in a sense of mystic personal communion with God felt by man