Lexical Summary midrash: study, exposition, midrash Original Word: מִדְרָשׁTransliteration: midrash Phonetic Spelling: (mid-rawsh') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: study, exposition, midrash Meaning: an investigation, a treatise, elaborate compilation Strong's Concordance story From darash; properly, an investigation, i.e. (by implication) a treatise or elaborate compilation -- story. see HEBREW darash Brown-Driver-Briggs H4097. midrash [מִדְרָשׁ] noun [masculine] study, exposition, midrash, only construct מִדְרַשׁ (late; common in Late Hebrew, in sense of imaginative exposition or didactic story) — הַמְּלָכִים סֵפֶר מִדְרַשׁ midrash of the book of Kings2 Chronicles 24:27; עִדּוֺ הַנָּבִיא מִדְרַשׁ midrash of the prophet Iddo13:22. These were probably of a didactic character, compare DrIntr 497. |
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