mildew
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A thin white or grey fungus that grows on plants, walls or cloth in damp places. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is named among the curses that come if Israel breaks the covenant. It means a disease that spoils crops. Interpretation: The curses in Deuteronomy are read by tradition as a warning, and as a call to return to God.
examples
- The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. (Torah DEU.28.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD — (Prophets HAG.2.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD. (Prophets AMO.4.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; (Prophets 1KI.8.37, JPS 1917) tree →
note
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Trees and pragmatics
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