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# emendation

«emendation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A change made to a text to fix a mistake or make it clear** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A change made to a text to fix a mistake or make it clear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/emendation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Scholars of the Sefer Yetzirah often propose emendations where the old copies seem to have errors or unclear words.

### examples

- The second word, שטותה, cannot be made sense of without emendation. שְׁטוּתָה shetutah would appear to be passed on a root שָׁטָה shatah which means ‘to mock, ridicule’, found in words like שְׁטוּת shetut ‘stupidity’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/emendation/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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