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# cosmogony

«cosmogony» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A story or theory about how the universe began** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A story or theory about how the universe began. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah is often read as a cosmogony in which God creates the world with the twenty-two letters and the ten sefirot.

### examples

- The Setirot cosmogony is given by the Sefer Yetzirah as follows: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#x1)
- saw in it only a cosmogony based upon the letters of the al- phabet and tlie Setiroth. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#x2)
- Chaos .signified in the ancient cosmogonies the vacant, in- finite space out of which sprang all things that exist. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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