pendent
adjective
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
- Trees and pragmatics of «pendent» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «pendent» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pendent/