atone

«atone» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To make up for a wrong you have done, by doing something… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (atone, atones, atoned, atoning)

meaning for a pupil

To make up for a wrong you have done, by doing something good or by paying for the harm. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To make up for sin so that a person or a place becomes clean and right with God. In Leviticus the priest does it for the holy place, the tent and the altar on the Day of Atonement. Interpretation: Atonement is at the heart of Yom Kippur. In Temple times the High Priest did it with offerings and the goat sent to the wilderness. Later tradition teaches that repentance, prayer and kind acts also atone. In the primary lessons: in tales a wrongdoer who must pay, repent or do a deed to make up for a sin or an accident

examples

• And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. (Torah LEV.16.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• He promised to atone for all his faults. tree →
• I will let him wander the world to atone for his sin. tree →
• He would pay handsomely to atone for the accident. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «atone» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.