gossamer
noun
In Jewish tradition
Job's friend Bildad uses it for something that cannot bear weight, like the trust of the wicked.
Interpretation. Tradition reads the saying as a warning that trust in anything but God is as flimsy as a spider's web.
Meaning
Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate. tree →
Examples
- Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web. (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «gossamer» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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