contrition
noun
In Jewish tradition
The verse has the sense of being brought low, crushed, so that people turn back to God.
Interpretation. Tradition links it to teshuvah, return or repentance, which God invites.
Meaning
deep sorrow and regret for wrongdoing tree →
Examples
- Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.' (Writings PSA.90.3, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «contrition» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «contrition» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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