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# linear

«linear» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Made of lines, or in the form of straight lines rather…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Made of lines, or in the form of straight lines rather than pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linear/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The author uses it to argue that Hebrew letters and numbers grew out of very ancient simple line signs.

### examples

- Evans and Professor Minders Petrie have shown that certain linear characters which (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linear/#x1)
- Similar to these cliaracters are the linear letters, which iiave been found on the Egyptian pottery. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linear/#x2)
- The linear characters in Egypt are earlier than the hieroglyphics, though a few of the forms may ultimately have been fused with the latter. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linear/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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