predominant
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
Strongest or ruling over others. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it describes the quality a Hebrew letter rules over, such as taste, smell or beauty. Interpretation: Each of the seven double letters and the twelve simple letters is given one chief power. God crowns it and joins it with a planet or sign, a month and a part of the body.
examples
- He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned it, combined and formed with it Aquarius in the Year, and the gullet in Man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Tau, predominant in beauty, crowned, combined and formed Jupiter in the Universe, the seventh day in the week, and the mouth of man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- He produced Nun, predominant in smell, crowned, combined, and formed Scorpio in the world, Marchesvan in the year, and the intestines in man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «predominant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.