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# ineffable

«ineffable» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Too great to be put into words or spoken** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Too great to be put into words or spoken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Sefer Yetzirah calls the ten Sephiroth "ineffable" because they are beyond full description. Interpretation: Tradition reads the ten Sephiroth as the ten numbers or stages through which God's creation and power are shown, beyond what human speech can say.

### examples

- The ineffable Sephiroth give forth the Ten numbers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#x1)
- The ineffable Sephiroth give forth the Ten num- bers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#x2)
- Ten are the numbers of the ineffable Sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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