guilt

«guilt» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The bad, uncomfortable feeling you have when you know you… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (guilt — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) The bad, uncomfortable feeling you have when you know you have done something wrong. tree →

2) The fact of having done something wrong or broken a law (the court proved his guilt). tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Prophets and Writings guilt is also what a person or people must bear for sin. Hosea says a divided heart will bear its guilt, Ezekiel says priests eat the guilt-offering, and Ezra says marrying foreign women increased Israel's guilt. Interpretation: The tradition says a person must confess, make good any loss, and then bring the offering. It teaches that wronging God or a neighbour needs real repair as well as feeling sorry. The priests' share of the guilt-offering is read as part of how the Temple service helped to bring forgiveness. In the primary lessons: In feelings lessons, guilt is a normal emotion that tells us to put things right: say sorry, fix a mistake. Too much guilt about things that were not your fault is not helpful — talk to someone. In stories guilt changes characters (they confess or make amends). In law and mystery stories, the detective proves someone's guilt. Phrases: feel guilt, a sense of guilt, guilty (adjective), guilt trip, guilty conscience.

examples

• It is a guilt-offering — he is certainly guilty before the LORD. (Torah LEV.5.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• And this is the law of the guilt-offering: it is most holy. (Torah LEV.7.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a guilt-offering. (Torah LEV.7.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• Their heart is divided; now shall they bear their guilt; He will break down their altars, He will spoil their pillars. (Prophets HOS.10.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• The meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they, even they, shall eat; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. (Prophets EZK.44.29, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them: 'Ye have broken faith, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. (Writings EZR.10.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• He felt guilt after he broke his sister's toy. tree →
• Saying sorry helped her guilt go away. tree →
• The detective found proof of the thief's guilt. tree →
• Don't carry guilt for something that wasn't your fault. tree →
• I felt guilty because I forgot her birthday. tree →
• The dog's guilty face showed it had eaten the cake. tree →

note

Homophone trap: «guilt» (feeling of doing wrong) and «gilt» (thin gold covering) sound the same. Adjective: guilty (I feel guilty). Opposite: innocence, innocent. Silent «u»: guilt.

In the corpora

• It is a guilt-offering — he is certainly guilty before the LORD.
• And this is the law of the guilt-offering: it is most holy.
• Their heart is divided; now shall they bear their guilt; He will break down their altars, He will spoil their pillars.
• Guilt shows that you care, and saying sorry and being kind helps fix things.
• Guilt shows you care; saying sorry and doing something kind helps you let it go.

Trees and pragmatics

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