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# theophany

«theophany» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A visible appearance or showing of God to people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A visible appearance or showing of God to people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/theophany/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Tradition reads the wind and storm as signs of God's presence, as at Sinai.

### examples

- Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/theophany/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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