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# intrust

«intrust» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An old spelling of "entrust": to give someone something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

An old spelling of "entrust": to give someone something to look after or keep safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intrust/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To "intrust" secrets or a book to someone means God handing sacred knowledge to a chosen person. Interpretation: Tradition says God gave the secrets of the Law and of creation to an angel, and gave Sefer Yetzirah to Adam and then to Abraham.

### examples

- To this angel God intrusted all the secrets of the Law, and of wisdom; and all the mysteries of creation are known to him as they are known to the Creator Himself*"i. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intrust/#x1)
- Thus far. it has been impossible to determine tiic ago and authorship of tlic Sefer Yetzirah. .Tcwish tradition claims divine origin for it: it was intrusted by tlie Lord to Adam and after- wards to Abraham***). (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intrust/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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