imposter
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A person who pretends to be someone else, or a fraud. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means false prophets and fortune-tellers whose signs God proves empty. Interpretation: Isaiah teaches that only God truly knows the future, so those who claim otherwise will be shown to be fools.
examples
- That frustrateth the tokens of the imposters, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (Prophets ISA.44.25, JPS 1917) tree →
note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «imposter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.