מִדְרָשׁ
midrash
also: study, exposition, record, story fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4097 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles 2 verses
- 2 Chronicles 13:22 בְּ/מִדְרַ֖שׁ prep + n c ms cs The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.
- 2 Chronicles 24:27 מִדְרַ֖שׁ n c ms cs Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] on him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מדרש (midrâsh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “midrash.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. It clusters heavily in 2 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in 2 Chronicles 13:22. Ranging over 3 senses, its meaning includes “study”, “exposition”, and “record”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4097 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Story 2×
- American Standard Version: Commentary 1×, They are written in the commentary 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Treatise 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Exposition of 1×, Writing of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4097 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4097 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4097 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4097 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- study, exposition, midrash, record, story
- writings of a didactic nature
- midrash - transliteration of the Hebrew word
Word origin
n.[m.] study, exposition, midrash, only cstr. מִדְרַשׁ (late; common in NH, in sense of imaginative exposition or didactic story)—מִדְרַשׁ סֵפֶר הַמְּלָכִים midrash of the book of Kings 2 Ch 24:27; מִדְרַשׁ הַנָּבִיא עִדּוֹ midrash of the prophet Iddo 2 Ch 13:22. These were prob. of a didactic character, cf. DrIntr. 497.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דרש (dârash) (H1875) — to seek.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִדְרָשׁ
- textual interpretation; study. Keth. IV, 6 זה מ׳ דרש וכ׳ the following interpretation did R … teach &c.; Shek. VI, 6.—Y. Yeb. XV, 14ᵈ עבדין כתובה מ׳, v. כְּתוּבָּה; a. fr.—Ab. I, 17 לא המ׳ הוא העיקר וכ׳ not study is the main thing, but practice is. Kidd. 49ᵃ bot. משנה … אומר מ׳ by Mishnah …, R. Judah says, we understand textual interpretation (as Sifra, Sifré &c.), contrad. to הלכות. Ib.ᵇ מאי תורה מִדְרַשׁ תורה (R. Johanan means) by Torah the interpretation of the Torah text; a. fr.—בֵּית הַמִּ׳ (abbr. בה"מ) school, college. Meg. 27ᵃ בה"כ מותר לעשותו בה"מ you may change a synagogue into a school house; a. fr.—Pl. מִדְרָשׁוֹת. Ker. 13ᵇ. Y. Ter. VIII, 45ᵇ top; (ib. I, 40ᵈ מקריות). Gen. R. s. 42 בתי מ׳ school houses; a. fr.—Esp. Midrash, homiletic book. מִדְרַשּׁ רבה Midrash Rabbah, homilies on the Pentateuch (and the five M’gilloth) (beginning with ר׳ הושעיא רבה).—מ׳ חזית (from its beginning חָזִיתָ, Prov. XXII, 29) = מ׳ שיר השירים Canticum Rabbah; מ׳ אסתר Midrash Esther or Esther Rabbah &c.—מ׳ שמואל a Midrash to the Books of Samuel; מ׳ תִּלִּים, also שׁוֹחֵר טוֹב (from its beginning, Prov. XI, 27) a Midrash to the Psalms.—מ׳ תַּנְחוּמָא Midrash Tanḥuma, to the Pentateuch.—Pl. מִדְרָשִׁים Midrashim, esp. רַבּוֹת Rabboth (a plural of רַבָּה by false analogy). e.g. Proverbs 22:29
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H4097 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/מִדְרַ֖שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 13:22 | 1 |
| מִדְרַ֖שׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 24:27 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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