sterility

noun

«sterility» 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

In Sefer Yetzirah it is the opposite of fruitfulness, one of the pairs that go with the seven double letters.

Interpretation. The book pairs each double letter with a quality and its opposite, such as wisdom and ignorance. This shows that creation is built on balanced opposites.

Meaning

The condition of being unable to have children or to produce crops; barrenness. tree →

Examples

These are double, because their opposites take part in life, opposed to Life is Death; to Peace, War; to Riches, Poverty; to Beauty or Reputation, Deformity or Disrepute; to Wisdom, Ignorance; to Fruitfulness, Sterility; to Power, Slavery. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «sterility» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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