harken
verb
In Jewish tradition
Interpretation: Here it means a later verse echoing an earlier one. The text links a verse in Job to the "tohu" (formlessness) of Genesis 1:2.
Meaning
To listen carefully, an old spelling of "hearken." It can also mean to go back to something earlier. 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
- Trees and pragmatics of «harken» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «harken» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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