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# crystallize

verb

«crystallize» 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 the notes on Sefer Yetzirah, it means that the idea of a Hebrew root turns into real speech and things.

**Interpretation.** The book sees speech and things as coming from the letters and roots. Tradition reads this as showing that language is itself a tool of creation.

### Meaning

To become clear, firm and fixed in shape, like a crystal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crystallize/#m1)

### Examples

- This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crystallize/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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