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# cosmogony

noun

«cosmogony» 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

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah is often read as a cosmogony in which God creates the world with the twenty-two letters and the ten sefirot.

### Meaning

A story or theory about how the universe began. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#m1)

### Examples

- The Setirot cosmogony is given by the Sefer Yetzirah as follows: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#x1)
- saw in it only a cosmogony based upon the letters of the al- phabet and tlie Setiroth. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#x2)
- Chaos .signified in the ancient cosmogonies the vacant, in- finite space out of which sprang all things that exist. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmogony/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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