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MIDRASH
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Irregular inflected form: midrashim
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Judaism) an ancient commentary on part of the Hebrew scriptures that is based on Jewish methods of interpretation and attached to the biblical text
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Midrash" is a kind of...):
comment; commentary (a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material)
Domain category:
Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)
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