[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mystery/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) / mystery # mystery noun (mystery, mysteries); adjective (mystery — unknown) «mystery» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A mystery is something strange that is not known or explained yet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#m1) 2. A mystery is a story or film about solving a crime or a puzzle, often by a detective. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#m2) 3. «A mystery number» or «mystery prize» is one you do not know yet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#m3) ### In the lessons In school maths: a «mystery number» to find (the unknown), often found by doing the opposite operation; number riddles. In literacy: mystery stories, clues, detectives, suspects. In science: mysteries scientists still try to solve, like what is at the bottom of the ocean. Phrases: «solve the mystery», «a mystery to me», «mystery story», «murder mystery». ### Examples - The mystery number plus 6 is 15. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x1) - Find the mystery number. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x2) - She reads a mystery book of 200 pages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x3) - Solve the mystery: who has more? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x4) - How the dog got onto the roof is a mystery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x5) - The detective followed the clues to solve the mystery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x6) - It's a mystery to me why he left. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x7) - I am thinking of a mystery number: double it and you get 14. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x8) - Everything was said in whispers, every word was a mystery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/#x9) ### Note Plural «mysteries» (y changes to ies). «Mysterious» is the adjective. Maths: «mystery number» is the unknown, often found by doing the opposite operation (15 − 6 = 9). Trap: check the answer by putting it back into the riddle. ## In Jewish tradition In Sefer Yetzirah it means a hidden, secret teaching about creation, held to be too deep to explain plainly. **Interpretation.** Tradition thinks of such teaching as a secret handed down to only a few, and the book speaks of depth as a sign of divine mystery. ### Examples - The Siphra Dtzeniouta, or Book of Concealed Mystery, translated by Mac Gregor Mathers, in his " Kabalah Denudata," opens with a reference to this Equilibrium as a fundamental neces- sity of stable existence. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystery/#x1) - Depth \[note 15: עוֹמֶק ʽomeq ‘depth’ here is based on the metaphor of עֲמֻקָּה ʽamuqqah ‘deepness’ as a symbol of divine mystery, as found in Biblical poetry, ex. \[Job 11:8\], \[Psalms 64:7\], \[Ecclesiastes 7:24\]. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystery/#x2) - These three mothers enclose a mighty mystery, most occult and most marvelous, sealed as with six rings, and from them proceed primeval Fire, Water, and Air; these are subsequently differentiated into male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystery/#x3) ### Note Plural «mysteries» (y changes to ies). «Mysterious» is the adjective. Maths: «mystery number» is the unknown, often found by doing the opposite operation (15 − 6 = 9). Trap: check the answer by putting it back into the riddle. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «mystery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«mystery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mystery.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «mystery» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«mystery» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mystery.html) on Mova free.