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# elemental

«elemental» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Having to do with the basic parts of something, or the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Having to do with the basic parts of something, or the first simple building blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/elemental/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Sefer Yetzirah calls the letters its basic building blocks, since it says the world is made from them. The word "elemental" is how some translators describe the letters.

### examples

- Certain translators have preferred to render otyot yesod as 'elemental letters' by analogy with the Greek term. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/elemental/#x1)
- In this interpretation, they are ten elemental entities or properties which bind or restrain primordial תֹּהוּ tohu, 'chaos, void, waste(land)' [Genesis 1:2], allowing structure and order to exist in creation. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/elemental/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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