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# interpolate

«interpolate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To put extra words, lines or a new piece into a story or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (interpolates, interpolated, interpolating) (formal)

### meaning for a pupil

To put extra words, lines or a new piece into a story or text, often between parts that were already there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Scholars say an editor added a division to Sefer Yetzirah, not knowing what the original meant by its letters. In the primary lessons: in the lessons a teller adds a local detail or a new scene into an old tale that was told before

### examples

- He interpolated this division in the Sefer Yetzirah without knowing that by ns:s the original Sefer Y'etzirah meant vowels. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x1)
- The teller interpolated a joke into the old story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x2)
- She interpolated her own verse between the lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x3)
- Later writers often interpolated new episodes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; in maths, to interpolate means to estimate a value lying between two known numbers, but it does not change a count by itself

### Trees and pragmatics

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