whisperer
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A person who whispers, here a magician who mutters spells. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Isaiah lists whisperers with idols, ghosts and spirits as false ways Egypt turns to. Interpretation: The Torah forbids such sorcery, and tradition reads this as showing the emptiness of seeking help from anyone but God.
examples
- And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will make void the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers, and to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits. (Prophets ISA.19.3, JPS 1917) tree →
note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
In the corpora
- A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends.
- The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
- Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
- The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «whisperer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.