godless
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Godless means without belief in God or wicked, having no respect for what is good. tree →
2) (old use, in stories) Godless describes people who are cruel or wicked. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Describes people who have no regard for God and do wrong. It is especially common in the speeches in Job. Interpretation: In Job, the friends insist that the godless always come to ruin, and Job disagrees. The book is read as wrestling with why the wicked sometimes seem to prosper. In the primary lessons: in old tales, the godless are the wicked characters who do bad things, such as witches and robbers
examples
- That the godless man reign not, that there be none to ensnare the people. (Writings JOB.34.30, JPS 1917) tree →
- Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless. (Writings JOB.17.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. (Writings JOB.15.34, JPS 1917) tree →
- The godless crew stole the king's gold. tree →
- The godless witch was punished in the end. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish;
- For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
- Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
- That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «godless» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.