tumultuous
adjective
In Jewish tradition
Describes a busy, noisy city, or in the Psalms a pit of roaring danger from which God lifts the speaker.
Interpretation. Isaiah warns Jerusalem that her noisy pleasure will not save her. In the Psalm, the tumultuous pit stands for deep trouble from which God rescues.
Meaning
Noisy, loud and wild, full of uproar. tree →
Examples
- Thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous town? (Prophets ISA.22.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings. (Writings PSA.40.3, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «tumultuous» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «tumultuous» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/tumultuous/