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  • And so we got [Greek: mikra, kai meizona, kai megista mystaeria].

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • Hamartia, saith he, ou mikra hēmin estai ean tous amemptōs kai hosiōs prosenenkontas ta dōra tēs episkopēs apozalōmen.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • There is a profounder calm than appears to the eye, in the quiet cottages scattered up and down among the peaceful valleys; the rest of death is more untroubled than the marble face which it leaves as its visible symbol; and sleep, "the minor mystery of death," ([Greek: hypnos ta mikra tou thanutou mystêria] [4]) has a deeper significance than is revealed in any external token.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • St. Basil calls kneeling the lesser penance (metanoia mikra) as opposed to prostration, the greater penance (metanoia megale).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The epithet mikra, as applied to the epithumia of the Elder, is inappropriate, and suggests an error of translation.

    The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

  • [40] Miara for mikra would yield good sense, but evidence for such a reading is absent.

    The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

  • [Footnote: Omitting, with Dindorf, the words which appear in the Teubner text, after emendation, as: mikra rakia, opos kai autos au phaiaes, on di autaen.]

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

  • But the word qaraa, which is the root of the word Koran, analogous to the Rabbinic mikra, rather means to address, recite; and with regard to its etymology and use in the kindred dialects to call, cry aloud, proclaim.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) 1854

  • One should recite it in the shnayim mikra v'echad targum format, with the concentration and understanding that our sustenance and livelihood come from HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2009

  • One should read it in Hebrew if possible, twice mikra and once targum.

    Lazer Beams 2009

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