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# permutation

«permutation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A change in the order of things, or one of the different…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A change in the order of things, or one of the different ways of arranging a group of things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it means the changing order of letters, which are combined and rearranged to form everything. Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah teaches that God created the world by combining and rearranging the twenty-two Hebrew letters. Later readers worked out how many arrangements there could be.

### examples

- 21) The combination of the twenty-two letters without permutation is represented in the following table: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#x1)
- 22) The number of combinations of twenty-two letters two and two without any permutation is according to the mathematical formula (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#x2)
- They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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