unrighteous
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
Not good or fair; wicked. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, an unrighteous witness is one who gives false testimony. The law forbids helping a wicked person in this way. Interpretation: The rabbis teach that false witnesses are severely punished. A court must examine witnesses carefully, and a false witness who tried to harm another receives the punishment he planned for that person.
examples
- If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; (Torah DEU.19.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. (Torah EXO.23.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. (Writings PSA.35.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? (Writings JOB.31.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity; (Prophets ISA.10.1, JPS 1917) tree →
note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
In the corpora
- Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him;
- Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity;
- Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
- O my God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «unrighteous» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.