physician

«physician» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A medical doctor, especially one who treats illness with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a physician, physicians)

meaning for a pupil

(formal, especially US) A medical doctor, especially one who treats illness with medicine rather than surgery. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Joseph orders them to embalm Jacob, following Egyptian custom. Later, Job calls his friends useless physicians, and King Asa is blamed for seeking physicians but not the LORD. Interpretation: Tradition notes that Jacob was embalmed so that his body could be carried back to the Land of Israel for burial. Asa's story is read as a warning to trust God first, not to avoid doctors. In the primary lessons: In everyday US speech «physician» is a formal word for doctor; in the UK people say GP or doctor. In history, a royal physician cared for kings. Phrases: family physician, consult your physician.

examples

• And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. (Torah GEN.50.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. (Writings JOB.13.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great; yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. (Writings 2CH.16.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• The physician listened to my heart. tree →
• Ask your physician before taking new medicine. tree →
• My aunt is a physician at the hospital. tree →
• The king's physician gave him a bitter potion. tree →
• A physician looks after people who are ill. tree →
• Our family physician knows all of us. tree →
• A wound from Kay's sword no physician could heal. tree →

note

Countable. Trap: a physician is a doctor; a physicist is a scientist who studies physics. Formal; in speech say doctor.

In the corpora

• And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
• And the physicians embalmed Israel.
• Is there no physician there?
• But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

Trees and pragmatics

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