ecliptic

«ecliptic» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The path in the sky that the sun seems to follow through… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The path in the sky that the sun seems to follow through the year. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah's "Dragon" is read by Kalisch as the line where the moon crosses this path, tying the book to ancient astronomy.

examples

• astronomers signified by the word Tali, not the constellation Draco, but the line which joins together the two points in which the orbit of the moon intercepts the ecliptic (Dragon's head and tail). (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

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