emendation

«emendation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A change made to a text to fix a mistake or make it clear — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A change made to a text to fix a mistake or make it clear. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Scholars of the Sefer Yetzirah often propose emendations where the old copies seem to have errors or unclear words.

examples

• The second word, שטותה, cannot be made sense of without emendation. שְׁטוּתָה shetutah would appear to be passed on a root שָׁטָה shatah which means ‘to mock, ridicule’, found in words like שְׁטוּת shetut ‘stupidity’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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