tormentor
part of speech
noun (plural tormentors)
meaning for a pupil
A tormentor is a person who causes pain, fear or trouble to someone, often on purpose and over and over. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Psalm 137 the tormentors are the Babylonian captors who mocked the exiles and made them sing for fun. Interpretation: Tradition reads this psalm as the grief of exiled Israel by Babylon's rivers. It teaches that a people in mourning cannot sing joyfully for those who hurt them, and that Zion must never be forgotten. In the primary lessons: in stories, the tormentors are the cruel people who hurt or taunt a helpless prisoner or victim
examples
- For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' (Writings PSA.137.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- The boy turned to his tormentors and begged them to stop. tree →
- The bully was the tormentor of the smaller children. tree →
- His tormentors laughed as he fell. tree →
- The cat was a tormentor to the mice. tree →
note
nothing for maths; it names people, and counting tormentors is simple counting.
Trees and pragmatics
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