Citations:perāqīm

English citations of perāqim and perāqīm

• 1909, Alfred Shenington Geden, Outlines of Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, T. & T. Clark, 148:

  The Mishna is written in Hebrew, for the most part pure and practically identical with the Hebrew of the later books of the Old Testament. It consists of six Sedārim or Books (סְדָרִים), subdivided into sixty-three Massikhtoth or Tractates (מַסִּכְתּוֺת); and these are further divided into chapters, Perāqim (פְּרָקִים).

• 2004, Moshe Gil, Jews in Islamic countries in the Middle Ages, BRILL, →ISBN, part II: “The Jews of Babylonia and Persia (39–306)”, chapter iii: ‘The Yeshivot (86–135)’, § 3: «The organization and structure of the yeshiva (90–95)», 126:

  In a later letter, when he was already gaon of Pumbedita, he recalls a convening of alūfīm and sages; the convening of perāqīm; the talmīdīm are to be called (to the yeshiva), and here the son, Hayy baḥūrēnū, is mentioned again.