latchet

noun

«latchet» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Abram uses a shoe-latchet as the smallest possible thing to refuse from the king of Sodom. Isaiah uses a broken latchet as a picture of an army so strong and ready that nothing about it fails.

Interpretation. Tradition praises Abram for refusing any reward, so that no one could say he was made rich by anyone but God.

Meaning

An old word for a strap or lace that fastens a shoe or sandal. tree →

Examples

that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich; (Torah GEN.14.23, JPS 1917) tree →
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken; (Prophets ISA.5.27, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

On Mova

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