sherd

«sherd» in Mova's judaism dictionary: An old word for a broken piece of pottery, now usually… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

An old word for a broken piece of pottery, now usually spelled shard. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Ezekiel it is the broken pieces of the cup of wrath that Jerusalem must drink and chew. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a picture of total punishment, where the people are made to swallow all of the cup that Samaria drank.

examples

• Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Prophets EZK.23.34, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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