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# calque

noun

«calque» 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 means to translate the Hebrew word belimah in a word-for-word way.

**Interpretation.** Some translators explain belimah as meaning "without what," so the sefirot are "numbers with no essence". It is one of several tries to understand this hard word.

### Meaning

A word or phrase made by translating each part of a word from another language. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/calque/#m1)

### Examples

- It might best be calqued as 'whatlessness', meaning 'having no essence', and thus the ‘Ten Sefirot Belimah’ would be the ‘Ten Essenceless/Whatless Numbers'. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/calque/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «calque» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/calque/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«calque» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/calque.html) on Mova free.