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# cosmos

noun

«cosmos» 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 pictures the cosmos as formed from the Hebrew letters, which are arranged and combined to make all things.

### Meaning

The universe seen as an orderly and harmonious whole. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#m1)

### Examples

- Who is the one dragging the Twenty-Two Letters through the water and driving them through the cosmos—God, or man?\] (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#x1)
- Later cosmogonists, such as Ovid, represent it as the confused, shapless mass, out of which the universe was formed into a cosmos, or harmonious order. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#x2)
- The five symbols or elements 1, 11, 111, 1111, 0, were supposed to symbolize the whole cosmos which was believed to be in harmony with a decimal system of notation expressible by these symbols.' (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cosmos/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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