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# transposition

«transposition» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The act of switching the order or place of letters or things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The act of switching the order or place of letters or things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/transposition/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Sefer Yetzirah tradition shows that the same letters in a different order can give opposite meanings.

### examples

- He means to say, that the letters of the words ענג and נגע are the same, but they signify nevertheless, opposite ideas on account of transposition. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/transposition/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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