predominate

«predominate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To be the strongest or ruling part — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To be the strongest or ruling part. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah, God lets a letter "predominate" in some quality, meaning that letter rules it. Interpretation: The tradition reads the letters as the tools of creation. Each one rules a part of the world, the year and the human body.

examples

• He let the letter Sheen (ש) predominate in primitive fire, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them, heaven in the world, heat in the year, and the head of male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• He let the letter Sheen (ש) predominate in primitive fire, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them, heaven in the world, heat in the year, and the head of male and female. [32] (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• He let the letter ת predominate in beauty, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them: Jupiter in the world, the seventh day in the year, and the mouth of man, male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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