trafficker

«trafficker» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A person who trades or does business, buying and selling… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A person who trades or does business, buying and selling goods. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Means a merchant, as in Ezekiel's long list of the trading partners of Tyre. In Hosea it describes a dishonest merchant with false scales. Interpretation: Hosea's cheating merchant is read as a picture of Israel's dishonesty. The law demands honest weights and measures, and cheating in business is treated as a serious sin.

examples

• Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding. (Prophets EZK.27.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand. (Prophets HOS.12.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic. (Prophets EZK.27.23, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Who hath devised this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
• Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
• Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic.
• As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand.

Trees and pragmatics

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