Usually means: Interpretation of Jewish texts, tradition.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. midrash: Merriam-Webster
  2. Midrash, midrash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Midrash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. midrash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Midrash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Midrash, midrash: Wordnik
  7. Midrash: Wiktionary
  8. midrash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. midrash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. midrash: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Midrash, midrash: Dictionary.com
  12. Midrash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Midrash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. midrash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Midrash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. midrash: FreeDictionary.org
  17. midrash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Midrash: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Midrash: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Midrash)

▸ noun:  A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.
▸ noun:  The Rabbinic technique or tradition of such exegesis.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Midrash [A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.]

Similar:
Medrash, midrashist, Rashi, Gemara, Rabbinism, Gemora, rabbinica, Masorah, beth midrash, Tosafot, more...

Opposite:
anti-midrash, counter-midrash, non-midrash

Phrases:
beth midrash, more...

Adjectives:
rabbinic, comparative, old, halakhic, ancient, late, early, aggadic, haggadic, tannaitic, modern

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Similar:
Medrash, midrashist, Rashi, Gemara, Rabbinism, Gemora, rabbinica, Masorah, beth midrash, Tosafot, more...

Opposite:
anti-midrash, counter-midrash, non-midrash

Phrases:
beth midrash, more...

Adjectives:
rabbinic, comparative, old, halakhic, ancient, late, early, aggadic, haggadic, tannaitic, modern



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