belie
verb
In Jewish tradition
The people deny the LORD by saying that no harm will come and that He will do nothing.
Interpretation. The prophet Jeremiah treats this as a sin: refusing to believe God's warnings and so ignoring His justice.
Meaning
To tell lies about someone or to deny the truth about them. tree →
Examples
- They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine; (Prophets JER.5.12, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «belie» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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