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# idea

«idea» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A thought or plan that comes into your mind, especially a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an idea, ideas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thought or plan that comes into your mind, especially a new one: a good idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#m1)

2) What you know or think about something: «I have no idea». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#m2)

3) The main point or purpose: «The idea of the game is to …». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#m3)

4) An opinion or belief: «She has her own ideas about it». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Commentators on Sefer Yetzirah often treat God, the idea and the word as one, so that creation begins as a thought and becomes real through speech. In the primary lessons: In school: brainstorm ideas, the main idea of a paragraph, a writing idea; in science an idea you test is a hypothesis. In everyday life: «good idea», «bad idea» — judging if a plan is safe or sensible. Phrases: good idea, no idea, get the idea, have an idea, main idea, the idea of, bright idea.

### examples

- We find this very idea in the Pythagorean system. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x1)
- This idea is then symbolically explained in the next paragraph. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x2)
- 13) See above Note 1, God, idea and word are indivisible. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x3)
- I have an idea: let's build a fort! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x4)
- That's a good idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x5)
- I have no idea where my shoes are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x6)
- What is the main idea of this paragraph? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x7)
- The idea of the game is to reach the end first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x8)
- Climbing on the roof is a bad idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x9)
- We shared our ideas in a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x10)
- Do you get the idea? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x11)
- Then an idea came to him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/idea/#x12)

### note

Countable: an idea (with «an» because it starts with a vowel sound), ideas. Say «eye-DEE-uh». «No idea» = I don't know. «Idea» is not the same as «ideal» (perfect).

### In the corpora

- [Arguments on TV get people watching, so some are allowed or even planned; that does not make shouting a good idea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/18/)
- [Bots are good at giving long lists of ideas quickly, such as names for a kitten.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/9/)
- [Using AI to understand an idea, then doing the work yourself, is like having a patient tutor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/10/)
- [The "10,000 hours" idea was made famous by the writer Malcolm Gladwell, based on research by the psychologist Anders Ericsson.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/9/)
- [A demo is a rough first recording made to show the idea of a song; it does not need to sound perfect.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/7-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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