[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/circle.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / circle [← C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/C/) # circle «circle» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a round flat shape** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (circle, circles); verb (circle, circles, circled, circling) ### meaning for a pupil 1) A circle is a round flat shape. Every point on its edge is the same distance from the middle (the centre). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#m1) 2) A circle of people or things is a group arranged in a ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#m2) 3) To circle something is to draw a ring around it: «circle the answer». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#m3) 4) To circle is to move round and round something: «the plane circled the airport». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#m4) 5) A circle of friends is a group of friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#m5) 6) A circle can also be one full round of time that ends where it began, such as a day or a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#m6) ### sense in the lessons Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah the 22 letters are set around a circle and combined in pairs. The tradition reads this as the way God made everything from letters. The prophets and Proverbs also speak of the circle of the earth and a circle set on the face of the deep, showing God's shaping of the world. In the primary lessons: In school maths: a shape with a centre, radius (centre to edge), diameter (edge to edge through the centre, twice the radius) and circumference (the distance around); things arranged in a circle (gaps equal things); «circle the right answer». In everyday life: circle time, sitting in a circle, a traffic circle (roundabout). Phrases: «in a circle», «circle the answer», «full circle», «circle time». ### examples - Drawing the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet around the edge of a circle, it takes 231 lines, here called שְׁעָרִים sheʽarim ‘gates’, to connect every possible combination of 2 letters. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x1) - circle Q or Q is each a letter. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x2) - elementary cliaracters, or letters, derive tlieir forms from the line and the circle. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x3) - When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep, (Writings PRO.8.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x4) - It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; (Prophets ISA.40.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x5) - 6 children stand in a circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x6) - Trees are planted around a circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x7) - Circle the right answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x8) - Draw a circle with radius 3 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x9) - The diameter of a circle is twice the radius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x10) - We sat in a circle for circle time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x11) - Eagles circled high above the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x12) - A circle has no corners and no straight sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x13) - In a few moments the day had completed its circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/#x14) ### note Countable: «a circle». A circle is flat; a ball (a sphere) is round in 3D. Maths: in a circle the number of gaps equals the number of things (not one less); diameter = 2 × radius. Trap: using the line rule (+1) on a circle. ### In the corpora - [When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.230/) - [Bon Odori is a calm circle dance at Japan's summer Obon festival, which honours the spirits of ancestors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/12/) - [Baby elephants stay close to mothers and aunts, who circle them when lions or hyenas come; babies suck their trunks for comfort.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/16/) - [Leafcutter bees wrap their rooms in neat circles cut from rose leaves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/4/) - [Teeth are brushed gently in small circles with a soft brush, because hard scrubbing hurts the gums and wears the teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/9/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «circle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.