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# interpolation

«interpolation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Something extra added into a text or story that was not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural interpolations) (formal)

### meaning for a pupil

Something extra added into a text or story that was not there at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Kalisch and others suspect that some passages of Sefer Yetzirah were added later by other hands. In the primary lessons: in the lessons a line or passage slipped into an old tale by a later teller or writer

### examples

- 44) This whole paragraph is an interpolation of an unknown hand, as it can be easily proved. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolation/#x1)
- But this arrangement is undoubtedly an interpolation of a later time, as the author of the book "Yezirah" lived many years before Ptolemy. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolation/#x2)
- As such a view is entirely re- pugnant to the modern critical raind, some writers regard this closing Mishnah as a later interpolation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolation/#x3)
- The line about the dragon is an interpolation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolation/#x4)
- Scholars spotted an interpolation in the old song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolation/#x5)
- This added scene is a later interpolation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolation/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths; in maths an interpolation is an estimate between two known values, and it does not add to a count

### Trees and pragmatics

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