Definitions for Mishnah

Mishnah Mish·nah

Spelling: [English, Ashkenazic Hebrew mish-nuh; Sephardic Hebrew
IPA: /English, Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈmɪʃ nə; Sephardic Hebrew miʃˈnɑ/

Mishnah is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in Mishnah (ahhimns).

Definitions for Mishnah

noun

  1. the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
  2. an article or section of this collection.

Origin of Mishnah

First recorded in 1600-10, Mishnah is from the Medieval Hebrew word mishnāh literally, teaching by oral repetition

Examples for Mishnah

His commentary on the Mishnah is the most useful of all helps to the understanding of that work.

The Rebbe, of blessed memory, explains a bit of the Mishnah to him upside down.

But there are parts of the Mishnah which are older, and parts also at least a century later than the death of that great scholar.

He lived from 150 to 210, and with his name is associated the compilation of the Mishnah.

This development of the Mishnah is in each case called Gemara.

Babylonia had risen into supreme importance for Jewish life at about the time when the Mishnah was completed.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, in the Mishnah, rabbis puzzled out 39 activities that constitute work and are forbidden on Shabbat.

That chief literary expression of Pharisaism, the Mishnah, was the outcome of the work begun at Jamnia.

He studied the text of the Mishnah so assiduously that he knew it by heart.

It was a Commentary on the Mishnah, and was written in Arabic.

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