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# cosmos

«cosmos» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The universe seen as an orderly and harmonious whole** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The universe seen as an orderly and harmonious whole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah pictures the cosmos as formed from the Hebrew letters, which are arranged and combined to make all things.

### examples

- Who is the one dragging the Twenty-Two Letters through the water and driving them through the cosmos—God, or man?] (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#x1)
- Later cosmogonists, such as Ovid, represent it as the confused, shapless mass, out of which the universe was formed into a cosmos, or harmonious order. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#x2)
- The five symbols or elements 1, 11, 111, 1111, 0, were supposed to symbolize the whole cosmos which was believed to be in harmony with a decimal system of notation expressible by these symbols.' (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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