fester
verb
In Jewish tradition
In Psalm 38 the wounds stand for the pain of the speaker's sins and foolishness.
Interpretation. Tradition reads the psalm as a confession of a person who sees his suffering as the result of his wrongs and who turns to God for healing.
Meaning
To go bad and fill with pus, as an infected wound does. tree →
Examples
- My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness. (Writings PSA.38.6, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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On Mova
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