loathsomeness
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Ezekiel it describes the newborn baby Jerusalem, left unwashed and unwanted in a field.
Interpretation. The picture shows God finding a helpless Israel and caring for her. It is read as the story of Israel's humble start and God's mercy.
Meaning
The state of being disgusting or hateful to look at or think about. tree →
Examples
- No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field in the loathsomeness of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. (Prophets EZK.16.5, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «loathsomeness» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «loathsomeness» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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