enigmatic

«enigmatic» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Mysterious and hard to understand — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Mysterious and hard to understand. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The phrase is read as echoing the "formlessness" (tohu) of Genesis 1:2 and Job. Tradition sees it as hinting at the world's hidden beginning.

examples

• This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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