midrash
/ˈmɪdrɑːʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Midrash.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: מִדְרָשׁ