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# equipoise

«equipoise» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A state of balance, where weights or forces are equal** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A state of balance, where weights or forces are equal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/equipoise/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah it is the balancing member of a group of three, which the tradition reads as the tongue or air placed between opposites.

### examples

- To confirm this there are faithful witnesses; the world, year and man, the twelve, the Equipoise, the heptade, which God regulates like the Dragon, [40] (Tali) sphere and the heart. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/equipoise/#x1)
- 41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/equipoise/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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