drɑʃ noun, plural mid·ra·shim 
[Sephardic Hebrew mee-drah-sheem; Ashkenazic Hebrew mi-draw-shim] , mid·ra·shoth, mid·ra·shot, mid·ra·shos [Sephardic Hebrew mee-drah-shawt; Ashkenazic Hebrew mi-d] .
[Sephardic Hebrew mee-drah-sheem; Ashkenazic Hebrew mi-draw-shim] , mid·ra·shoth, mid·ra·shot, mid·ra·shos [Sephardic Hebrew mee-drah-shawt; Ashkenazic Hebrew mi-d] . 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, especially those written in the first ten centuries a.d.
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| —n , pl midrashim | |
| 1. | a homily on a scriptural passage derived by traditional Jewish exegetical methods and consisting usually of embellishment of the scriptural narrative |
| 2. | one of a number of collections of such homilies composed between 400 and 1200 |
| [C17: from Hebrew: commentary, from darash to search] | |
| midrashic | |
| —adj | |
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