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# benumbed

adjective (from benumb: benumb, benumbs, benumbed, benumbing)

«benumbed» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Made numb, so that a person cannot feel or move properly, usually from cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/#m1)

### In the lessons

a cold traveller who sits still and cannot feel his hands or feet

### Examples

- His fingers were benumbed with cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/#x1)
- He sat still, benumbed and cold, in the snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: The psalmist describes illness and sorrow so deep that he is numb. Tradition reads such psalms as prayers that a suffering person can say to God. In the primary lessons: a cold traveller who sits still and cannot feel his hands or feet

### Examples

- I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart. (Writings PSA.38.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/benumbed/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «benumbed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «benumbed» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/benumbed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«benumbed» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/benumbed.html) on Mova free.