tenor

«tenor» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The general meaning or sense of something, or the way it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The general meaning or sense of something, or the way it goes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it means the exact words or sense of something written or declared, such as the covenant. Interpretation: God says the covenant is made by the sense of these words, and Jewish tradition says the Written Torah and the teachings of the sages go together.

examples

• And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.' (Torah EXO.34.27, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee. (Torah DEU.17.10, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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