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# ethereal

«ethereal» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **very light, delicate and airy, as if it belongs to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more ethereal)

### meaning for a pupil

Ethereal means very light, delicate and airy, as if it belongs to the sky or to a spirit rather than to the solid world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/ethereal/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means made of a fine, airy substance, like the elements before they became physical. Interpretation: The commentator reads the world as having a fine, spiritual form above the coarse one we see. In the primary lessons: in tales, ethereal beings such as fairies and spirits are light and not solid; their wings, blood or voices are fine, bright and seem to float

### examples

- 26) Here is meant: ethereal air, ethereal water, ethereal fire, the macrocosm, the courses of time and microcosm. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/ethereal/#x1)
- The fairy had ethereal wings that shone like glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/ethereal/#x2)
- Her voice was soft and ethereal, like a song in the mist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/ethereal/#x3)
- The spirits in the story looked ethereal and far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/ethereal/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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