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# poetically

«poetically» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **like a poem, beautiful and full of imagery** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

In a way that is like a poem, beautiful and full of imagery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poetically/#m1)

### examples

- Most literally, it means ‘waste(land)’, the lifeless open desert, a translation of [Genesis 1:2] so far captured in English only by Robert Alter’s The Hebrew Bible (2019), who poetically renders תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ tohu vavohu as “waste and welter”; cf. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poetically/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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