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# equipoise

noun

«equipoise» 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: In Sefer Yetzirah it is the balancing member of a group of three, which the tradition reads as the tongue or air placed between opposites.

### Meaning

A state of balance, where weights or forces are equal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/equipoise/#m1)

### Examples

- To confirm this there are faithful witnesses; the world, year and man, the twelve, the Equipoise, the heptade, which God regulates like the Dragon, \[40\] (Tali) sphere and the heart. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/equipoise/#x1)
- 41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/equipoise/#x2)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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