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# milt

«milt» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The spleen, a small organ near the stomach; also the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The spleen, a small organ near the stomach; also the sperm of male fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/milt/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it is the "milt" of the body, which is one of the twelve organs of a person. Interpretation: The book links each organ to a letter, a month and a sign of the zodiac. The spleen is tied to laughter, to the letter Qoph, and to the month of Adar.

### examples

- The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet [39] or esophagus, stomach and milt. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/milt/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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