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# primeval

«primeval» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Very, very old; from the earliest times of the world…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Very, very old; from the earliest times of the world, long before people lived. (A rather grand word.) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/primeval/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it describes the first elements, fire, water and air, which come from the three "mother" letters. Interpretation: Tradition reads the three mother letters, Aleph, Mem and Shin, as the root of all the elements, and so of everything made. In the primary lessons: in stories about the first gods, the first world, or the very first days of nature

### examples

- These three mothers enclose a mighty mystery, most occult and most marvelous, sealed as with six rings, and from them proceed primeval Fire, Water, and Air; these are subsequently differentiated into male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/primeval/#x1)
- Primeval forests grew here before anyone lived on the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/primeval/#x2)
- The gods of old were called primeval. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/primeval/#x3)
- Dinosaurs roamed the primeval world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/primeval/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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