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# genitals

«genitals» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the parts of the body used to make babies** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

the parts of the body used to make babies [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genitals/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Tradition links the genitals with the covenant of circumcision, and Sefer Yetzirah pairs this with the tongue as the two "covenants" of the body.

### examples

- There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genitals/#x1)
- Both items refer to anatomical hiddenness: the word emerging from the tongue, hidden in the mouth, and circumcision of the genitals, the concealed lower organs revealed during circumcision. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genitals/#x2)
- Another association between language, mouth, and genitals, though the connection (if any) with the SY is unclear, is found in the idiom עָרְלַת שְׂפָתַיִם ʽorlat sefatayim ‘uncircumcised of lips’, probably meaning one who is unskilled in speech, e.g. [Exodus 6:12]. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genitals/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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