transposition

«transposition» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The act of switching the order or place of letters or things — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The act of switching the order or place of letters or things. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Sefer Yetzirah tradition shows that the same letters in a different order can give opposite meanings.

examples

• He means to say, that the letters of the words ענג and נגע are the same, but they signify nevertheless, opposite ideas on account of transposition. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

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