crystallize

verb

«crystallize» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

In the notes on Sefer Yetzirah, it means that the idea of a Hebrew root turns into real speech and things.

Interpretation. The book sees speech and things as coming from the letters and roots. Tradition reads this as showing that language is itself a tool of creation.

Meaning

To become clear, firm and fixed in shape, like a crystal. tree →

Examples

This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

Note

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

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «crystallize» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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