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# enigmatic

«enigmatic» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Mysterious and hard to understand** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Mysterious and hard to understand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enigmatic/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The phrase is read as echoing the "formlessness" (tohu) of Genesis 1:2 and Job. Tradition sees it as hinting at the world's hidden beginning.

### examples

- This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enigmatic/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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