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# spleen

«spleen» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An organ in the body near the stomach that helps clean…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An organ in the body near the stomach that helps clean the blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spleen/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah assigns each of the twelve simple letters to a sign, a month and a body part. Qoph and Nun go with the spleen, and tradition links the spleen to laughter and sleep.

### examples

- He produced Quoph, predominant in Mirth, crowned, combined, and formed Pisces in the world, Adar in the year, and the spleen in man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spleen/#x1)
- He produced Qoph, predominant in Mirth, crowned it, combined and formed with it Pisces in the Universe, Adar in the Year, and the spleen of Man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spleen/#x2)
- He made the letter Nun reign, and bound to it a crown, and formed with it Scorpio in the World, and Marcheshwan in the Year, and the spleen in the Person. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spleen/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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