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# sipper

«sipper» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the Hebrew word for "he told," from the same root as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Sipper is the Hebrew word for "he told," from the same root as number and book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sipper/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah's readers see in the root S-P-R the three ways God made the world: by counting, writing and speaking.

### examples

- However, only one, ספ״ר SPR, is capable of describing all three: counting (סָפַר safar 'he counted', מִסְפָּר mispar 'number, count'), writing (סֵפֶר sefer 'book, scroll'), and speaking (סִפֵּר sipper 'he told, accounted', סִפּוּר sippur 'telling, account'). (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sipper/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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