King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4097
Transliteration: midrash
Phonetic Spelling: (mid-rawsh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: study, exposition, midrash
Meaning: an investigation, a treatise, elaborate compilation
Word 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.