monger
noun
In Jewish tradition
Here "ballad-mongers" are scoffers who mock the prophet and make jokes about God's warnings.
Interpretation. Isaiah's rebuke is read as aimed at leaders who laughed at the prophet and trusted in treaties, not in God.
Meaning
A person who deals in or spreads something, often something bad. It is now used mostly in words such as "fishmonger" or "scaremonger". tree →
Examples
- Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, the ballad-mongers of this people which is in Jerusalem: (Prophets ISA.28.14, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «monger» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «monger» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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