lucre

«lucre» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Money or profit, especially when gotten in a shameful way — 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

Money or profit, especially when gotten in a shameful way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Samuel's sons took lucre and bribes, and so they were not fit to judge Israel. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as showing why judges must never take bribes. Their greed led the people to ask for a king.

examples

• And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (Prophets 1SA.8.3, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Trees and pragmatics

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