Notarikon
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Notarikon is a traditional Jewish interpretive technique, especially used in Kabbalah, that derives hidden meanings by treating each letter of a word as the initial or final letter of another word to form phrases or concepts.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish interpretive technique
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Kabbalistic method → acrostic technique → hermeneutic method → |
| appliedTo |
biblical verses
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divine names → liturgical texts → |
| appliesTo |
Hebrew words
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| associatedWith |
Jewish mystics
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Kabbalists → |
| basedOn |
Hebrew alphabet
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| coreIdea |
each letter of a word can stand for a whole word
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hidden meanings can be derived from letter expansions → letters of a word can be expanded into a phrase → |
| describedAs |
a form of rabbinic wordplay
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a technique for expanding scriptural words into teachings → |
| distinguishedFrom |
Gematria
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Temurah → |
| epistemicStatus |
esoteric
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non-literal interpretation → |
| goal |
derive hidden meanings
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generate mystical phrases → reveal esoteric concepts → |
| hasEtymology |
derived from Latin notaricus or Greek notarios
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| influenced |
Jewish mystical symbolism
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later Kabbalistic literature → |
| interpretiveLevel |
remez
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sod → |
| linguisticOperation |
creation of phrases from single words
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re-segmentation of letters into new words → |
| methodType |
acronym formation
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backronym formation → letter-based interpretation → |
| partOf |
Kabbalistic hermeneutics
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traditional Jewish exegesis methods → |
| relatedTo |
Gematria
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Temurah → |
| religiousContext |
Judaism
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| requires |
familiarity with traditional phrases and concepts
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knowledge of Hebrew letters → |
| tradition |
Jewish tradition
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| usedIn |
Jewish biblical exegesis
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Jewish mysticism → Kabbalah → rabbinic literature → |
| uses |
final letters of words
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initial letters of words → |