enormity

«enormity» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A very great wickedness or crime — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A very great wickedness or crime. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means a terrible, shameful deed. Hosea says that priests murdered on the road to Shechem, a city of refuge. Interpretation: The prophet is angry that those who should lead in holiness acted like robbers. The tradition treats this as a sign of how far a leader can fall.

examples

• And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so doth the company of priests; they murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they commit enormity. (Prophets HOS.6.9, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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