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# permutation

noun

«permutation» 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

In Sefer Yetzirah it means the changing order of letters, which are combined and rearranged to form everything.

**Interpretation.** Sefer Yetzirah teaches that God created the world by combining and rearranging the twenty-two Hebrew letters. Later readers worked out how many arrangements there could be.

### Meaning

A change in the order of things, or one of the different ways of arranging a group of things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#m1)

### Examples

- 21) The combination of the twenty-two letters without permutation is represented in the following table: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#x1)
- 22) The number of combinations of twenty-two letters two and two without any permutation is according to the mathematical formula (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#x2)
- They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/permutation/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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