bypath

«bypath» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A side path, away from the main road — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A side path, away from the main road. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It stands for crooked, uneven ways of life, opposed to the "ancient paths" of the Torah. Interpretation: Jeremiah says the people left the old, firm road of God's commandments for untrodden side tracks. The tradition reads this as turning to idols and false ways.

examples

• For My people hath forgotten Me, they offer unto vanity; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up; (Prophets JER.18.15, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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