straying

«straying» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness. The word is "strayings" because their faithlessness was held to be the reason. Interpretation: Tradition reads the forty years as one year for each day the spies explored the land. It is a punishment that fits the crime.

examples

• And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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