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pendent

adjective

«pendent» 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

Here it is a split form of "dependent": the consonants rely on the vowels.

Interpretation. The author reads Sefer Yetzirah's letters as having a link between consonants and vowels, with the vowels giving the letters life.

Meaning

Hanging down, or depending on something else. tree →

Examples

  • § 12 The five vowels stand each one by itself, but the twenty- seven consonants are all de- pendent on tlie vowels. (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

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