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Haggada

Haggada is the alternative form of Aggadah.

Haggada is the alternative form of Haggadah.

Meaning of Aggadah

Noun

Aggadah (plural Aggadahs or Aggadah or Aggadot or Aggadoth)

  1. A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud.
    • They termed them also..Agada in the Chaldee, or..Hagada in the Hebrew form, which are rendered in Philo, by the Greek ...1725, Edward Chandler, Anthony Collins, “Of the Allegorick or other Methods of citing Scripture, used by the Writers of the New Testament.”, in A defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the...

Meaning of Haggadah

Proper noun

Haggadah (plural Haggadahs or Haggadot or Haggadoth)

  1. (Judaism) The text which is recited at Seder during the first and second nights of Passover, focused on the freeing of Israel from Egyptian bondage as described in the Book of Exodus.

Forms of Haggada

pluralHaggadas
pluralHaggadot
pluralHaggadoth

Questions about Haggada

What is Haggada the alternative form of?
Haggada is the alternative form of Aggadah.

Words near Haggada in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Haggada (page history and authors); Aggadah (page history and authors); Haggadah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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