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# formless

«formless» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Without a clear shape or form** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Without a clear shape or form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/formless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says God made the earth from the void and the formless, echoing the "unformed and void" in Genesis. It is read as the raw stuff before creation was given shape.

### examples

- He also formed and designed from his Spirit, and from the void and formless made earth, even as a rampart, or standing wall, and varied its surface even as the crossing of beams. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/formless/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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