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# annotation

«annotation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A note added to a text to explain it or comment on it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A note added to a text to explain it or comment on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/annotation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Explaining and adding notes to old texts is very much the Jewish way of studying, and Sefer Yetzirah has many commentaries.

### examples

- III, 2, prove undoubtedly that he had no knowledge whatever of natural science, and therefore his annotations on the book "Yezirah" are of little or no use at all. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/annotation/#x1)
- Quite recently, and since the completion of my translation, my attention has been drawn to a version by Isidor Kalisch, in which he has reproduced many of the valuable annotations of Meyer. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/annotation/#x2)
- Again, I have to add that I have not only endeavored to correct a great many mistakes and erroneous ideas of my predecessors, but I have also endeavored to give more complete annotations. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/annotation/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «annotation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/annotation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.