stallion
noun
In Jewish tradition
Jeremiah uses lusty horses as a picture of people who cannot control their desires.
Interpretation. The prophet's picture is read as a rebuke of faithless sin, especially unfaithfulness in marriage, which the tradition treats as a serious wrong.
Meaning
A full-grown male horse, kept for breeding. tree →
Examples
- They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife. (Prophets JER.5.8, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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On Mova
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