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# homophony

«homophony» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **when different words or letters sound the same, or nearly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Homophony is when different words or letters sound the same, or nearly the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/homophony/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Writers on the Sefer Yetzirah point to similar sounds between letters and words as a clue to how the letters were chosen and named.

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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