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# ideographic

adjective

«ideographic» 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 author argues that alphabetic writing, as in Hebrew, is better than picture-writing. He reads Sefer Yetzirah as praising the alphabet.

### Meaning

Describing writing in which a picture or sign stands for a whole idea rather than a sound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ideographic/#m1)

### Examples

- The purpose of the author was to e ..pliiisizc the superiority of alphabetic writing over the non-alphabetic writing (ideographic and syllabic) used by all the nations of antiquity, and even now by a great portion of mankind. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ideographic/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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