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# interpolate

verb (interpolates, interpolated, interpolating) (formal)

«interpolate» 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: Scholars say an editor added a division to Sefer Yetzirah, not knowing what the original meant by its letters. In the primary lessons: in the lessons a teller adds a local detail or a new scene into an old tale that was told before

### Meaning

To put extra words, lines or a new piece into a story or text, often between parts that were already there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#m1)

### Examples

- He interpolated this division in the Sefer Yetzirah without knowing that by ns:s the original Sefer Y'etzirah meant vowels. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x1)
- The teller interpolated a joke into the old story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x2)
- She interpolated her own verse between the lines. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x3)
- Later writers often interpolated new episodes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/interpolate/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths; in maths, to interpolate means to estimate a value lying between two known numbers, but it does not change a count by itself

## On Mova

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