[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/operation.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / operation [← O](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/O/) # operation «operation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a way of working with numbers: add, subtract, multiply or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (operation, operations) ### meaning for a pupil 1) In maths, an operation is a way of working with numbers: add, subtract, multiply or divide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#m1) 2) An operation is when a doctor (a surgeon) fixes something inside the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#m2) 3) An operation is a planned piece of work done by many people: a rescue operation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Prophets and Psalms it means what God does, "the operation of His hands," that is, His deeds in the world. The prophets blame people who feast and ignore it. Interpretation: Tradition reads these verses as saying that people should notice God's works in nature and history, and that those who do not will be brought down. Sefer Yetzirah uses the word for the workings of the planets under the Administrative Intelligence. In the primary lessons: the four ways to calculate («all four operations»); the goal of reading a word problem is to choose the operation; some problems need two operations; in everyday life a hospital operation; in news a rescue operation ### examples - The Thirty-second Path is the Administrative Intelligence, and it is so called because it directs and associates, in all their operations, the seven planets, even all of them in their own due courses. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x1) - The Thirty-second Path is the Administrative Intel- ligence, and it is so called because it directs and asso- ciates in all their operations the seven planets, even all of them in their own due courses. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x2) - Because they give no heed to the works of the LORD, nor to the operation of His hands; He will break them down and not build them up. (Writings PSA.28.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x3) - And the harp and the psaltery, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of His hands. (Prophets ISA.5.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x4) - Today we practise all four operations together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x5) - Which operation do we use here? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x6) - This problem needs two operations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x7) - Adding and subtracting are opposite operations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x8) - Grandpa had an operation on his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x9) - The doctors did the operation in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x10) - A big rescue operation found the lost hikers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x11) - Here is another instance of a life-giving operation of a double nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/#x12) ### note The goal of reading a problem is to choose the operation. Trap: some problems need two operations, one after the other. Adding and subtracting undo each other; so do multiplying and dividing. Verb «operate». ### In the corpora - [A waiting list is a queue for a non-urgent operation, and in the NHS the wait can be months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/11/) - [Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/5/) - [A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/11/) - ["A procedure" in hospital talk means an operation or surgery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/14/) - ["Had some work done" means had cosmetic surgery, operations on the face or body that change how a person looks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/19/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «operation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/operation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.