gossamer

«gossamer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Job's friend Bildad uses it for something that cannot bear weight, like the trust of the wicked. Interpretation: Tradition reads the saying as a warning that trust in anything but God is as flimsy as a spider's web.

examples

• Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web. (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.

Trees and pragmatics

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