destroyer

«destroyer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A person or thing that destroys or ruins something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A person or thing that destroys or ruins something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah, the destroyers are three of the twelve simple letters, set opposite the life-givers, in a picture of balanced opposing forces. In the prophets and Job, destroyers are armies sent to ruin a land or the powers of death that wait for a sick person. Interpretation: Readers of Sefer Yetzirah take the friends, enemies, life-givers and destroyers as a teaching that the world is built from balanced opposites. The tradition reads the prophets' destroyers as agents God sends to punish a sinful city, who in turn may be removed.

examples

• The Twelve stand as in warfare; three are friends, three are enemies; three are life givers; three are destroyers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• The Twelve stand as in warfare ; three are friends, three are enemies ; three are life givers ; three are destroyers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• There are twelve which are all the time at war; three of them produce love, and three hatred, three are animators and three destroyers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to the destroyers. (Writings JOB.33.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee. (Prophets ISA.49.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. (Prophets JER.22.7, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
• Even one that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.
• A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
• Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

Trees and pragmatics

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