chide

«chide» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To scold or quarrel with someone angrily — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To scold or quarrel with someone angrily. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Gideon calms Ephraim's anger with a gentle answer. Tradition draws the lesson that humility turns away wrath.

examples

• And the men of Ephraim said unto him: 'Why hast thou served us thus, that thou didst not call us when thou wentest to fight with Midian?' And they did chide with him sharply. (Prophets JDG.8.1, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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