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Mishnah

mish·nah

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noun

1.

the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200

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Borrowed from Hebrew מִשְׁנָה (mišnāh, “repetition, oral law”), from שָׁנָה (šānāh, “to repeat, teach”).

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