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# viscous

adjective

«viscous» 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: Old commentary reads the "chaos" of creation as slimy stones sunk in the deep. From them, they say, water comes.

### Meaning

Thick and sticky, like syrup or glue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/viscous/#m1)

### Examples

- refers to viscous stones, sunk in the abyss, whence water comes (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/viscous/#x1)
- Void is a green line that sur- rounds the whole universe, and chaos refers to viscous stones, (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/viscous/#x2)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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