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parallelism

noun

«parallelism» 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: Scholars use the word for the matching lines found in Hebrew poetry, as in Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and for matching ideas in the Sefer Yetzirah.

Meaning

A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side. tree →

Examples

  • There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
  • 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/parallelism/