linear

«linear» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Made of lines, or in the form of straight lines rather… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Made of lines, or in the form of straight lines rather than pictures. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The author uses it to argue that Hebrew letters and numbers grew out of very ancient simple line signs.

examples

• Evans and Professor Minders Petrie have shown that certain linear characters which (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Similar to these cliaracters are the linear letters, which iiave been found on the Egyptian pottery. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• The linear characters in Egypt are earlier than the hieroglyphics, though a few of the forms may ultimately have been fused with the latter. (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 «linear» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.