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# ineffable

adjective

«ineffable» 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

Sefer Yetzirah calls the ten Sephiroth "ineffable" because they are beyond full description.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the ten Sephiroth as the ten numbers or stages through which God's creation and power are shown, beyond what human speech can say.

### Meaning

Too great to be put into words or spoken. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#m1)

### Examples

- The ineffable Sephiroth give forth the Ten numbers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#x1)
- The ineffable Sephiroth give forth the Ten num- bers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#x2)
- Ten are the numbers of the ineffable Sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ineffable/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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