Gemara Definition

gə-märə, -môrə
noun

The second and supplementary part of the Talmud, providing a commentary on the first part (the Mishna)

Webster's New World
The Talmud.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(Judaism) Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.

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Origin of Gemara

  • Aramaic gəmārā completion from gəmar to complete gmr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Hebrew

    From Wiktionary

Gemara Sentence Examples

  • As regards the Talmud, neither the Mishnah nor the subsequent Gemara aimed at presenting a digested corpus of law.

  • The material thus accumulated, both halakhic and agadic, forming a commentary on and amplification of the Mishnah, was eventually written down under the name of Gemara (from gemar, to learn completely), the two together forming the Talmud (properly "instruction").

  • In the Palestinian Talmud (Yerushalmi) the gemara of the 5th order (Qodashim) and of nearly all the 6th (Tohoroth) is missing, besides smaller parts.

  • In the Babylonian Talmud (Babhli) there is no gemara to the smaller tractates of Order r, and to parts of ii., iv., v., vi.

  • These are always printed in the editions on the same page as the Mishnah and Gemara, the whole, with various other matter, filling generally about 12 folio volumes.

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Words Starting With

GGEGEM

Words Ending With

ARAARA

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