lewdness

«lewdness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Shameful or sinful behaviour in sexual matters — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Shameful or sinful behaviour in sexual matters. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It refers to forbidden sexual relations that would defile the land. Interpretation: The Rabbis read these laws as the rules of holiness that keep family and society pure.

examples

• Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness. (Torah LEV.19.29, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are near kinswomen; it is lewdness. (Torah LEV.18.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. (Prophets EZK.16.58, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy harlotry, on the hills in the field have I seen thy detestable acts. (Prophets JER.13.27, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. (Prophets EZK.23.48, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
• Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

Trees and pragmatics

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