stargazer

«stargazer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A person who studies the stars, especially to tell the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A person who studies the stars, especially to tell the future. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Isaiah mocks the stargazers of Babylon, who claimed to read the future in the sky. Interpretation: The Torah forbids telling the future by the stars, and tradition reads this verse as showing that such wisdom cannot save anyone from what God decrees.

examples

• Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee. (Prophets ISA.47.13, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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