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# sterility

«sterility» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The condition of being unable to have children or to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The condition of being unable to have children or to produce crops; barrenness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sterility/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it is the opposite of fruitfulness, one of the pairs that go with the seven double letters. Interpretation: The book pairs each double letter with a quality and its opposite, such as wisdom and ignorance. This shows that creation is built on balanced opposites.

### examples

- These are double, because their opposites take part in life, opposed to Life is Death; to Peace, War; to Riches, Poverty; to Beauty or Reputation, Deformity or Disrepute; to Wisdom, Ignorance; to Fruitfulness, Sterility; to Power, Slavery. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sterility/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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