unrighteous

adjective

«unrighteous» 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

In the Torah, an unrighteous witness is one who gives false testimony. The law forbids helping a wicked person in this way.

Interpretation. The rabbis teach that false witnesses are severely punished. A court must examine witnesses carefully, and a false witness who tried to harm another receives the punishment he planned for that person.

Meaning

Not good or fair; wicked. tree →

Examples

If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; (Torah DEU.19.16, JPS 1917) tree →
Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. (Torah EXO.23.1, JPS 1917) tree →
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. (Writings PSA.35.11, JPS 1917) tree →
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? (Writings JOB.31.3, JPS 1917) tree →
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity; (Prophets ISA.10.1, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

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