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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

MIDRASH

mid'-rash (midhrash): The Hebrew word corresponding to the King James Version "story" and the Revised Version (British and American) "commentary" in 2 Chronicles 13:22; 2 Chronicles 24:27. A midrash is properly a story developed for purposes of edification.

See COMMENTARY.

Greek

3131. manna -- manna
... 'As was the first Redeemer,' so ran the Midrash, 'so shall be the final Redeemer;
as the first Redeemer caused the manna to fall from heaven, even so shall the ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4097. midrash -- study, exposition, midrash
... 4096, 4097. midrash. 4098 . study, exposition, midrash. Transliteration: midrash
Phonetic Spelling: (mid-rawsh') Short Definition: treatise. ...
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Library

List of Abbreviations Used in Reference to Rabbinic Writings ...
... Bemid R. The Midrash (or Commentary) Bemidbar Rabba, on Numbers. Ber. ... Ber. R.
The Midrash (or Commentary) Bereshith Rabba, on Genesis. Bets. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/list of abbreviations used in.htm

Appendix x. On the Supposed Temple-Synagogue.
... PUTTING aside, as quite untenable, the idea of a regular Beth ha-Midrash in the
Temple (though advocated even by Wünche), we have to inquire whether any ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/appendix x on the supposed.htm

Teaching in the Temple on the Octave of the Feast of Tabernacles.
... In a very interesting passage of the Midrash [4043] we are told, that, while commonly
windows were made wide within and narrow without, it was the opposite in ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter viii teaching in the.htm

Chronicles
... What sort of production it was may be inferred from the reference in 2 Chronicles
24:27 to the "midrash of the book of the Kings." Doubtless the book in ...
/.../mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/chronicles.htm

List of Authorities
... Ikenius: Dissertationes Philologico-theologicæ. Jellinek: Beth ha-Midrash. Joel:
Blick in d. Religionsgesch. ... im Talmud. Midrash Rabboth. Midrashim. ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/list of authorities.htm

The Three Parables of Warning: to the Individual, to the Nation ...
... compares man to the weasel, which laboriously gathers and deposits, not knowing
for whom, while the Midrash [4446] tells a story, how, when a Rabbi returned ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xvi the three parables.htm

The Jewish Dispersion in the West - the Hellenists - Origin of ...
... penetrate into the Divine mysteries. The Palestinian also searched into
them, and the result was the Midrash. But, whichever of his ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter ii the jewish dispersion.htm

Footnotes
... Still the Midrash maintains that Daniel, or the person writing in his name, was
no prophet, like Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, but a man of visions, an ...
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The Three Parables of the Gospel: of the Recovery of the Lost - of ...
... Perhaps, however, this is a more apt parallel, when the Midrash [4490] relates how,
when Moses fed the sheep of Jethro in the wilderness, and a kid had gone ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xvii the three parables.htm

Integrity and State of the Text.
... And in the Syro-Chaldee version, given in Midrash Rabbah de Rabbah, Bel has
a subscription, and the Dragon a fresh title (see Ball, 345a). ...
/.../daubney/the three additions to daniel a study/integrity and state of the 3.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

Thesaurus

Midrash
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MIDRASH. mid ... 27. A midrash is properly a
story developed for purposes of edification. See COMMENTARY. ...
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Monthly (11 Occurrences)
... zum Altes Testament, 91) holds that we have here an example of a midrash, ie according
to LOT, 529, "an imaginative development of a thought or theme suggested ...
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Prophet (315 Occurrences)
... zum Altes Testament, 91) holds that we have here an example of a midrash, ie according
to LOT, 529, "an imaginative development of a thought or theme suggested ...
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Hebrew (37 Occurrences)
... he'-broo: 1. Philo Judaeus 2. Targum 3. Midrash 4. Talmud 5. Karaites 6. Middle
Ages (1) Saadia ben Joseph (2) Rashi (3) Joseph Kara (4) Abraham ibn Ezra (5 ...
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Games (2 Occurrences)
... GJ V4, III, 255). There are also many short stories in the Haggadic portions
of the Talmud and the Midrash. 5. Dancing: Dancing, that ...
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Midnight (14 Occurrences)

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Jehoshaphat (79 Occurrences)
... Ammonites. No doubt he made use of a current historical Midrash. Many find
the historical basis of the Midrash in the events recorded in ...
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Books (16 Occurrences)
... (6) The Midrash of the Book of the Kings (2 Chronicles 24:27). ... (2 Chronicles 35:25).
Josiah. (20) The Midrash of the Prophet Iddo (2 Chronicles 13:22). Abijah. ...
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Thorn (30 Occurrences)
... 28:24). Genesis 3:18 uses the words qots and dardar for "thorns" and
"thistles." Midrash Rabba' to Genesis (Midr. Gen. Rabba' 20 ...
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Talmud
... back to the 1st century AD; very old, perhaps even older, is also the formal adjustment
of this material to the Pentateuchal Law, the form of Exegesis (Midrash...
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Subtopics

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Monthly (11 Occurrences)

Prophet (315 Occurrences)

Hebrew (37 Occurrences)

Games (2 Occurrences)

Midnight (14 Occurrences)

Jehoshaphat (79 Occurrences)

Books (16 Occurrences)

Thorn (30 Occurrences)

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