straying

noun

«straying» 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

The Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness. The word is "strayings" because their faithlessness was held to be the reason.

Interpretation. Tradition reads the forty years as one year for each day the spies explored the land. It is a punishment that fits the crime.

Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray. tree →

And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917) tree →

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