monger
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A person who deals in or spreads something, often something bad. It is now used mostly in words such as "fishmonger" or "scaremonger". tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here "ballad-mongers" are scoffers who mock the prophet and make jokes about God's warnings. Interpretation: Isaiah's rebuke is read as aimed at leaders who laughed at the prophet and trusted in treaties, not in God.
examples
- Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, the ballad-mongers of this people which is in Jerusalem: (Prophets ISA.28.14, 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 «monger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.