mildew

noun

«mildew» 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

It is named among the curses that come if Israel breaks the covenant. It means a disease that spoils crops.

Interpretation. The curses in Deuteronomy are read by tradition as a warning, and as a call to return to God.

A thin white or grey fungus that grows on plants, walls or cloth in damp places. tree →

The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. (Torah DEU.28.22, JPS 1917) tree →
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD — (Prophets HAG.2.17, JPS 1917) tree →
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD. (Prophets AMO.4.9, JPS 1917) tree →
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; (Prophets 1KI.8.37, JPS 1917) tree →

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