Midrash

//ˈmɪdrɑːʃ//

Synonyms for "midrash"

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Translations

18 translations across 9 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • مدراش noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • مدراش noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Aramaic

2 entries
  • מִדְרְשָׁא noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • מִדְרְשָׁא noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Hebrew

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  • מִדְרָשׁ noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • מִדְרָשׁ noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Ladino

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  • midrash noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • midrash noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Persian

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  • میدراش noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • میدراش noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Polish

2 entries
  • midrasz noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • midrasz noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Russian

2 entries
  • мидра́ш noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • мидра́ш noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Spanish

2 entries
  • Midrash noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • Midrash noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)

Yiddish

2 entries
  • מדרש noun (Rabbinic exegetical commentary)
  • מדרש noun (Rabbinic exegetical technique)

Sample sentences

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In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.

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Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world.

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You could call the Gospels a midrash on the Hebrew Bible, the lives of the saints a midrash on the Christ story, the Koran a midrash on all of the above.

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Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.

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