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mid·rash    Audio Help   [Seph. Heb. mee-drahsh; Ashk. Heb. mi-drahsh] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural mid·ra·shim    Audio Help   [Seph. Heb. mee-drah-sheem; Ashk. Heb. mi-draw-shim] Pronunciation Key, mid·ra·shoth, mid·ra·shot, mid·ra·shos    Audio Help   [Seph. Heb. mee-drah-shawt; Ashk. Heb. mi-draw-shohs] Pronunciation Key.
1.an early Jewish interpretation of or commentary on a Biblical text, clarifying or expounding a point of law or developing or illustrating a moral principle.
2.(initial capital letter) a collection of such interpretations or commentaries, esp. those written in the first ten centuries a.d.
[Origin: 1605–15; < Heb midrāsh lit., exposition]

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mid·rash·ic    Audio Help   [mid-rash-ik] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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Mid·rash    Audio Help   (mĭd'räsh')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. Mid·rash·im (mĭd-rô'shĭm, mĭd'rä-shēm')
Any of a group of Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Scriptures compiled between A.D. 400 and 1200 and based on exegesis, parable, and haggadic legend.


[Hebrew midrāš, commentary, explanation, Midrash, from dāraš, to seek, study; see drš in Semitic roots.]

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midrash

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(Judaism) an ancient commentary on part of the Hebrew scriptures that is based on Jewish methods of interpretation and attached to the biblical text 

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Midrash

Ha*la"cha\, n.; pl. Halachoth(?) [Heb. hal[=a]ch[=a]h.] The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

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