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# esophagus

«esophagus» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The tube that carries food from the throat to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach; the gullet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/esophagus/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah lists it among the twelve organs of the body, matched with the twelve months and the twelve signs of the zodiac.

### examples

- The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet [39] or esophagus, stomach and milt. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/esophagus/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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