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# semitic

«semitic» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to do with the peoples and languages of the Middle East…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

to do with the peoples and languages of the Middle East, such as Hebrew and Arabic [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/semitic/#m1)

### examples

- The grouping of the processes of origin into an arrangement, at once alphabetic and numeral, is one only to be found in Semitic authors. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/semitic/#x1)
- But the word is not of Semitic origin; it is, according to my opinion, borrowed from the Greek as the word סימן, etc., Πλημη flood. אבנים מפלמות flood-stones. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/semitic/#x2)
- Table of Semitic characters by Julius Euting, No. 52, 03. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/semitic/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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