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# lien

«lien» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A mistaken printing of a name or word in an old scanned…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A mistaken printing of a name or word in an old scanned book; here it stands for "Rabbi" or a name such as "Ben" before Sira. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lien/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The story tells that Ben Sira wanted to study Sefer Yetzirah and a heavenly voice said he could not do it alone, so a companion joined him. Tradition reads this as meaning that deep mysteries are best studied with a partner.

### examples

- "lien Sira wanted to study the Sefer Yetzira, when a heav- enly voice came out and snid: 'Thou canst nut do it aloin-'. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lien/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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