tetrad

«tetrad» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A group of four things — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A group of four things. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Writers on Sefer Yetzirah connect the four with the four elements, and the ancient Pythagoreans thought it a perfect number.

examples

• Note the subdivision of the Decad into the Tetrad — four elements ; and the Hexad — six dimensions of space. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• The Tetrad, Tctractys, (jualer- nian number, is the most peit'ect. (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 «tetrad» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.