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# rebus

«rebus» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A puzzle in which pictures, letters, numbers or symbols…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a rebus, rebuses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A puzzle in which pictures, letters, numbers or symbols stand for words or parts of words: a picture of an eye + a heart + a ewe = «I love you». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#m1)

2) A coat of arms or design whose picture is a pun on a family's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Rebuses are popular word puzzles in school and in puzzle books; they train thinking about sounds. «2 B or not 2 B». Lewis Carroll and Kipling loved word games; rebuses are a cousin of their puns. In history, early writing used rebus ideas: a picture for a sound helped turn pictures into letters.

### examples

- Hinc jam rebus Israel inclinatis ne deficeret per sapientes Hierusalem arcanis et (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x1)
- Hinc jam rebus Israel inclinatis ne deficeret per sapientes Hierusalem arcanis et [p. 12] profundissimis sensibus literis commendatus." Johannes Pistorius. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x2)
- Can you solve this rebus: a picture of a bee and a leaf means «belief»? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x3)
- We made our own rebus puzzles in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x4)
- «I C U» is a simple rebus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x5)
- The family's coat of arms was a rebus on their name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x6)
- Early writing used the rebus idea to spell sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x7)
- The rebus puzzle had a picture of a sun and a flower: sunflower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rebus/#x8)

### note

Plural: rebuses. Said «REE-bus». From Latin «rebus», «by things».

### In the corpora

- [The rebus trick uses a picture for its sound: a bee and a leaf can spell «belief».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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