seduce

«seduce» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To lead someone astray, to tempt them into doing wrong — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To lead someone astray, to tempt them into doing wrong. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Kings it describes how King Manasseh led his people into worse evil than the nations. Interpretation: Tradition treats Manasseh as an example of a leader whose bad example harms many, yet who was said to repent later.

examples

• But they hearkened not; and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. (Prophets 2KI.21.9, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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