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למדה

למדה

Hebrew

Verb

למדה

  1. (לָמְדָה, lam'dá) Third-person feminine singular past tense (suffix conjugation) of לָמַד (lamád): (she/it) learned.
  2. (לִמְּדָה, lim'dá) Third-person feminine singular past tense (suffix conjugation) of לִמֵּד (liméd): (she/it) taught.
  3. (לִמְּדָהּ, lim'dáh) Third-person masculine singular past tense (suffix conjugation) of לִמֵּד (liméd), with a third-person feminine singular pronoun suffixed as direct object: (he/it) taught her/it.
    • Babylonian Talmud, סוטה, chapter 3, Vilna edition folio 21 verso:
      ר׳ אליעזר אומר כל המלמד את בתו תורה מלמדה תיפלות׃ תיפלות ס״ד אלא אימא כאילו למדה תיפלות
      Rabbi Eliezer says: “Everyone who teaches his daughter Torah teaches her nothingness.” “Nothingness” you think? Rather, I will say “[it is] as if he taught her nothingness”.

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