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# predominant

«predominant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Strongest or ruling over others** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Strongest or ruling over others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/predominant/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it describes the quality a Hebrew letter rules over, such as taste, smell or beauty. Interpretation: Each of the seven double letters and the twelve simple letters is given one chief power. God crowns it and joins it with a planet or sign, a month and a part of the body.

### examples

- He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned it, combined and formed with it Aquarius in the Year, and the gullet in Man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/predominant/#x1)
- Tau, predominant in beauty, crowned, combined and formed Jupiter in the Universe, the seventh day in the week, and the mouth of man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/predominant/#x2)
- He produced Nun, predominant in smell, crowned, combined, and formed Scorpio in the world, Marchesvan in the year, and the intestines in man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/predominant/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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