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# tentative

«tentative» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Not certain or final, and done carefully as a first try** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Not certain or final, and done carefully as a first try. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tentative/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah the twenty-fifth path is the Tentative, or testing, Intelligence, which tries the righteous.

### examples

- The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Proba- tion, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator trieth all righteous persons. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tentative/#x1)
- The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Probation, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator (blessed be He) trieth all righteous persons. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tentative/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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