cosmogony

«cosmogony» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A story or theory about how the universe began — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A story or theory about how the universe began. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah is often read as a cosmogony in which God creates the world with the twenty-two letters and the ten sefirot.

examples

• The Setirot cosmogony is given by the Sefer Yetzirah as follows: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• saw in it only a cosmogony based upon the letters of the al- phabet and tlie Setiroth. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Chaos .signified in the ancient cosmogonies the vacant, in- finite space out of which sprang all things that exist. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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