calque

«calque» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A word or phrase made by translating each part of a word… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A word or phrase made by translating each part of a word from another language. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to translate the Hebrew word belimah in a word-for-word way. Interpretation: Some translators explain belimah as meaning "without what," so the sefirot are "numbers with no essence". It is one of several tries to understand this hard word.

examples

• It might best be calqued as 'whatlessness', meaning 'having no essence', and thus the ‘Ten Sefirot Belimah’ would be the ‘Ten Essenceless/Whatless Numbers'. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «calque» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.