parallelism

«parallelism» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A likeness or matching between two things, such as two… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Scholars use the word for the matching lines found in Hebrew poetry, as in Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and for matching ideas in the Sefer Yetzirah.

examples

• There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• 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 «parallelism» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.