perversion

«perversion» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A twisting of something good or natural into something wrong — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A twisting of something good or natural into something wrong. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Leviticus it names the forbidden act of a person lying with an animal, a confusion of the natural order. Jeremiah uses it for false, twisted speech against the LORD, spoken by the false prophet Hananiah. Interpretation: The law counts it among the serious forbidden unions, and the tradition reads it as mixing what God kept separate. Hananiah's death is read as the punishment for false prophecy.

examples

• And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto; it is perversion. (Torah LEV.18.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• 'Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken perversion against the LORD.' (Prophets JER.28.16, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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