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# coven

noun

«coven» 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 this text it is the word "covenant", cut in two by a scanning or printing break.

**Interpretation.** The line says that a covenant has been made about the ten sefirot, which the tradition reads as a serious oath to keep their secret and contemplate them with care.

### Meaning

A broken piece of the word "covenant" made when the word was split across two lines in a printed book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/coven/#m1)

### Examples

- § H The ten digits and zero — close tliy mouth from speaking and thy heart from thinking, and if tliy heart should leap, let it come back to its place; for concerning this has the coven- ant been made. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/coven/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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