permutation
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Sefer Yetzirah it means the changing order of letters, which are combined and rearranged to form everything.
Interpretation. Sefer Yetzirah teaches that God created the world by combining and rearranging the twenty-two Hebrew letters. Later readers worked out how many arrangements there could be.
Meaning
A change in the order of things, or one of the different ways of arranging a group of things. tree →
Examples
- 21) The combination of the twenty-two letters without permutation is represented in the following table: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- 22) The number of combinations of twenty-two letters two and two without any permutation is according to the mathematical formula (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «permutation» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «permutation» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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