linear
adjective
In Jewish tradition
Interpretation: The author uses it to argue that Hebrew letters and numbers grew out of very ancient simple line signs.
Meaning
Made of lines, or in the form of straight lines rather than pictures. tree →
Examples
- Evans and Professor Minders Petrie have shown that certain linear characters which (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Similar to these cliaracters are the linear letters, which iiave been found on the Egyptian pottery. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- The linear characters in Egypt are earlier than the hieroglyphics, though a few of the forms may ultimately have been fused with the latter. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «linear» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «linear» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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