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# metaphorical

«metaphorical» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Used as a picture or comparison, not meant literally** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Used as a picture or comparison, not meant literally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/metaphorical/#m1)

### examples

- And on yet another level, it refers to the physical body, the primary metaphorical sense in which the term is encountered in the SY. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/metaphorical/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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