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# metaphorically

adverb

«metaphorically» 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: Sefer Yetzirah says that God "writes" or "engraves" the world with letters. Readers take this as a picture of God's thought, speech and action being one.

### Meaning

In a way that uses a comparison or picture, not literally. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/metaphorically/#m1)

### Examples

- Thought, speech and action are an inseparable unity in the divine being; God made or created, is metaphorically expressed by the word: writing. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/metaphorically/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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