ideographic

«ideographic» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Describing writing in which a picture or sign stands for… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Describing writing in which a picture or sign stands for a whole idea rather than a sound. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The author argues that alphabetic writing, as in Hebrew, is better than picture-writing. He reads Sefer Yetzirah as praising the alphabet.

examples

• The purpose of the author was to e ..pliiisizc the superiority of alphabetic writing over the non-alphabetic writing (ideographic and syllabic) used by all the nations of antiquity, and even now by a great portion of mankind. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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