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# sibilant

«sibilant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Making a hissing sound like "s" or "sh"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Making a hissing sound like "s" or "sh". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sibilant/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah describes Shin, the letter of fire, as sibilant (hissing), against water, which is silent, with air mediating between them.

### examples

- Shin is sibilant, and Aleph is the Mediator and as it were a friend placed between them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sibilant/#x1)
- Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived fron the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sibilant/#x2)
- Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived from the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sibilant/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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