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  to interpret, to expound  JLAtg, Gal, JBA, LJLA.  TgJ Jud5:9 : דְכַד הְוָת עָקְתָא הַהִיא לָא פְסַקוּ מִלְמִדרַש בְאוֹרָיתָא‏  for when there was that trouble they did not stop interpreting Torah †.  TgEsth² 10:3(1) : מרדכי דמתקרי פתחיה מן בגלל דהוה פתח רישי מיליא ודריש להון בשובעין לישנין‏  Mordecai who was called Petahiah because he used to begin preaching and expound to them in seventy languages.

  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 156b; DJBA: 353b; Jastrow: 325; Levy Ch-W: 1:189; Tal Sam: 195a;

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Derivatives:

mdrš, mdršˀ (maḏraš, maḏršā/maḏrāš, maḏrāšā) n.m.   textual exposition; hymn

byt mdrš, by mdrš n.m.   school

byt mtybt mdrš, byt mtybt mdršˀ n.m.   study center