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MISHNAH
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Irregular inflected form: mishnayoth
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200
Synonyms:
Mishna; Mishnah
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Holonyms ("Mishnah" is a part of...):
Talmud (the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism)
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