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# creation

«creation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the act of making something new** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (creation, a creation, creations; Creation)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Creation is the act of making something new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#m1)

2) A creation is a thing someone has made, like a painting, a cake or a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#m2)

3) (Bible, religion) Creation, or the Creation, is the making of the world by God, told in Genesis; it can also mean the whole world and everything in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jews see creation as the world made by God in six days, followed by Shabbat. Sefer Yetzirah calls it the "Work of Creation" (Ma'aseh Bereshit) and traces how God made it through letters and numbers. Interpretation: The Work of Creation was taught only to a few people, as it was seen as deep and risky. The text reads language as the tool of creation. In the primary lessons: In art lessons a pupil's model is "your creation". In RE the creation story tells of six days of making and one of rest; in science, pupils learn the Big Bang and evolution as how the universe and life developed, and many believers say science and faith answer different questions. Phrases: the creation of, a new creation, all creation, the story of creation, care for creation.

### examples

- These are the 7 Days in the Year: the Days of Creation. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x1)
- Together these represent the mathematical-linguistic foundations of Creation; see notes on 1:2 below. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x2)
- The text is intimately concerned with the role of language in the Work of Creation. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x3)
- The chef showed off her latest creation: a rainbow cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x4)
- The creation of the school garden took all term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x5)
- In Genesis, creation takes six days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x6)
- My Lego creation was a castle with a moat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x7)
- Christians believe people should care for God's creation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x8)
- The creation of the national park protected the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/creation/#x9)

### note

Countable for things made ("two creations"), uncountable for the act. Verb create; adjective creative; person creator. Capital C sometimes for the world as God's work.

### In the corpora

- [People are made last, so many Christians see them as the high point of creation, made to care for the rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/10/)
- [Christians believe the earth is God's creation and that people are its stewards, called to look after it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/5/)
- [The Bible says little about animals in heaven; some Christians hope God will make all creation new.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/72-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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