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# metaphorically

«metaphorically» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **In a way that uses a comparison or picture, not literally** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

In a way that uses a comparison or picture, not literally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/metaphorically/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says that God "writes" or "engraves" the world with letters. Readers take this as a picture of God's thought, speech and action being one.

### examples

- Thought, speech and action are an inseparable unity in the divine being; God made or created, is metaphorically expressed by the word: writing. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/metaphorically/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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