sottish

«sottish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Foolish or dull, as if stupid with drink — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Foolish or dull, as if stupid with drink. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jeremiah calls the people foolish children who are clever at evil but ignorant of good. Interpretation: Tradition reads it as a warning that cleverness without the knowledge of God is true foolishness.

examples

• For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. (Prophets JER.4.22, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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