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# poetically

adverb

«poetically» 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

### Meaning

In a way that is like a poem, beautiful and full of imagery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poetically/#m1)

### Examples

- Most literally, it means ‘waste(land)’, the lifeless open desert, a translation of \[Genesis 1:2\] so far captured in English only by Robert Alter’s The Hebrew Bible (2019), who poetically renders תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ tohu vavohu as “waste and welter”; cf. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/poetically/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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