treachery
noun (treachery — uncountable; treacheries)
Everyday
- Betraying someone who trusts you; being disloyal or false. tree →
- Hidden danger: the treachery of thin ice. tree →
In the lessons
Stories, history and the Bible: Judas's treachery in betraying Jesus; traitors in history (the Gunpowder Plot). In The Wind in the Willows the weasels and stoats take Toad Hall while he is away. Values lessons: the opposite of loyalty and trust.
Examples
- The king was shocked by the treachery of his own brother. tree →
- Judas's treachery is told in the Bible. tree →
- The weasels used treachery to seize Toad Hall. tree →
- Betraying a friend's secret is a kind of treachery. tree →
- Beware the treachery of the ice in spring. tree →
- The story is full of plots and treachery. tree →
- The maiden, suspecting no treachery, gave him the magic ring. tree →
Note
Mostly uncountable. Adjective: treacherous (can mean disloyal, or dangerous: treacherous roads). Person: traitor. Opposite: loyalty.
In Jewish tradition
In Leviticus it means unfaithfulness to God, breaking the trust of the covenant.
Interpretation. The tradition reads this as Israel's confession of its sins and those of its ancestors, which is the way back to God's remembered covenant.
Examples
- And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their treachery which they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary unto Me. (Torah LEV.26.40, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah: 'There is treachery, O Ahaziah.' (Prophets 2KI.9.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- 'God, God, the LORD, God, God, the LORD, He knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in treachery against the LORD — save Thou us not this day — (Prophets JOS.22.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- And I will spread My net upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his treachery that he hath committed against Me. (Prophets EZK.17.20, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
Mostly uncountable. Adjective: treacherous (can mean disloyal, or dangerous: treacherous roads). Person: traitor. Opposite: loyalty.
On Mova
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- Trees and pragmatics of «treachery» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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