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# parallelism

noun

«parallelism» 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 use the word for the matching lines found in Hebrew poetry, as in Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and for matching ideas in the Sefer Yetzirah.

### Meaning

A likeness or matching between two things, such as two phrases or ideas placed side by side. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parallelism/#m1)

### Examples

- There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parallelism/#x1)
- This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in \[Job 26:7\], where in a harkening back to \[Genesis 1:2\] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/parallelism/#x2)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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