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# emphasize

verb

«emphasize» 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: The writer says Sefer Yetzirah insists God made existence from nothing and fixes the exact number of letters. Tradition stresses that the numbers in the book are exact and meaningful.

### Meaning

To give special importance or attention to something by stressing it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/emphasize/#m1)

### Examples

- This is at variance with tlie Sefer Yetzirah, which emphasizes the doctrine of creation from nothing by the statement: "He (Godi formed existence out of void, something out of nothing" (Mishnah '22i. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/emphasize/#x1)
- The Sefer Yetzirah\*) emphasizes that the number of the double letters is no less and no more than ten, and the number of the simple letters no less and no more than twelve. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/emphasize/#x2)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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