Mishnah

American  

[mish-nuh, meesh-nah] / ˈmɪʃ nə, miʃˈnɑ /

Or Mishna

noun

Judaism.

Mishnayoth, plural Mishnayot, plural Mishnayos, plural Mishnahs plural

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.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Mishnaic
  adjective
• Mishnic
  adjective
• Mishnical
  adjective
• post-Mishnaic
  adjective
• post-Mishnic
  adjective
• post-Mishnical
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Mishnahs
  plural
• Mishnayos
  plural
• Mishnayot
  plural
• Mishnayoth
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Mishnah

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Mishnah Mishnahs

Lander took his oath of office on a 500-year-old fragment of the Mishnah, an ancient Jewish text documenting oral traditions and laws.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2021

A low glass cabinet contained the full Mishnah.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 14, 2019

Entire sections of the Mishnah and Talmud are devoted to trying to flesh out this simple command.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2015

He found a trove of clues in three codices of Jewish Law that were compiled millennia ago in Israel: the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Jerusalem Talmud.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 21, 2015

I finished the explanation of the Mishnaic text and read the next thought unit, which consisted of another Mishnah found in a different tractate from the one we were now studying.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

He gave information concerning the composition of the Mishnah and the Gemara, and the relations of the Mishnahs and the Baraitas.

From Rashi by Szold, Adele

The Gemara on the above Mishnahs gives the opinions of a large number of Rabbis, reporting also discussions in which they took part.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir