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enigmatic

adjective

«enigmatic» 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

Interpretation: The phrase is read as echoing the "formlessness" (tohu) of Genesis 1:2 and Job. Tradition sees it as hinting at the world's hidden beginning.

Meaning

Mysterious and hard to understand. tree →

Examples

  • This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

Note

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

On Mova

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/enigmatic/