seduce
verb
In Jewish tradition
In Kings it describes how King Manasseh led his people into worse evil than the nations.
Interpretation. Tradition treats Manasseh as an example of a leader whose bad example harms many, yet who was said to repent later.
Meaning
To lead someone astray, to tempt them into doing wrong. tree →
Examples
- But they hearkened not; and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. (Prophets 2KI.21.9, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «seduce» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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