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# ideographic

«ideographic» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Describing writing in which a picture or sign stands for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Describing writing in which a picture or sign stands for a whole idea rather than a sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ideographic/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The author argues that alphabetic writing, as in Hebrew, is better than picture-writing. He reads Sefer Yetzirah as praising the alphabet.

### examples

- The purpose of the author was to e ..pliiisizc the superiority of alphabetic writing over the non-alphabetic writing (ideographic and syllabic) used by all the nations of antiquity, and even now by a great portion of mankind. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ideographic/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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