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单词 midrash
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midrash

noun

mid·​rash ˈmi-ˌdräsh How to pronounce midrash (audio)
plural midrashim mi-ˈdrä-shəm How to pronounce midrash (audio)
1
: a haggadic or halachic exposition of the underlying significance of a Bible text
2
: a collection of midrashim
3
capitalized : the midrashic literature written during the first Christian millennium
midrashic
mi-ˈdrä-shik How to pronounce midrash (audio)
adjective often capitalized

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web As many as 1,100 adult students would attend lectures tailored to secular Jews and aimed at democratizing the kind of Jewish learning that was typically restricted to the beit midrash, or formal house of Jewish study. Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2022 Typically, midrash would start wherever there was something unusual in the text. oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2021 Scripture was a performative art, such as the intensely emotional and argumentative art of Jewish midrash. Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2019 Nor does the average WeWork have a beit midrash, or Jewish study hall, filled with Torah books and other religious texts. Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019 At Mt. Sinai, God’s voice, in midrash, was heard communally, but was so overwhelming that only the first letter, aleph, was sounded. Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017

Word History

Etymology

Hebrew midhrāsh exposition, explanation

First Known Use

1613, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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