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# parallelism

«parallelism» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A likeness or matching between two things, such as two…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parallelism/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Scholars use the word for the matching lines found in Hebrew poetry, as in Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and for matching ideas in the Sefer Yetzirah.

### examples

- There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parallelism/#x1)
- This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parallelism/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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