milt
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Sefer Yetzirah it is the "milt" of the body, which is one of the twelve organs of a person.
Interpretation. The book links each organ to a letter, a month and a sign of the zodiac. The spleen is tied to laughter, to the letter Qoph, and to the month of Adar.
Meaning
The spleen, a small organ near the stomach; also the sperm of male fish. tree →
Examples
- The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet [39] or esophagus, stomach and milt. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «milt» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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