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# comforter

noun (a comforter, comforters)

«comforter» 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

1. A comforter is a person or thing that comforts someone who is sad or worried. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#m1)
2. (US) A comforter is a thick, warm quilt for a bed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#m2)
3. (UK, old) A comforter was a long woollen scarf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#m3)
4. (UK, old) A comforter was a baby's dummy (US: pacifier). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#m4)
5. (Bible, church) The Comforter is a name for the Holy Spirit in some Bible translations; Christians believe God's Spirit comforts and helps them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#m5)

### In the lessons

In stories, a friend acts as a comforter in sad times. In The Wind in the Willows the animals wrap up in warm things in winter. In church, John's Gospel says Jesus promised to send «the Comforter». Phrase from the Bible: «Job's comforters», friends who make you feel worse.

### Examples

- Grandma was a great comforter when I was sad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#x1)
- In America, I sleep under a fluffy comforter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#x2)
- He wound his woollen comforter round his neck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#x3)
- The baby sucked on his comforter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#x4)
- Jesus promised his disciples the Comforter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#x5)
- Job's friends were poor comforters. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comforter/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Note the different meanings in the USA (quilt) and in old British English (scarf, dummy). Capital C for the Holy Spirit.

## In Jewish tradition

Someone who consoles a mourner or sufferer; in Job it names his friends who failed to console him.

**Interpretation.** Comforting mourners is a mitzvah in Jewish law, and the Haftarot after Tisha B'Av begin "Comfort, comfort My people," so God is the great Comforter of Zion.

### Examples

- I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all. (Writings JOB.16.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/comforter/#x1)
- Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sore sick; and I looked for some to show compassion, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. (Writings PSA.69.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/comforter/#x2)
- Her filthiness was in her skirts, she was not mindful of her end; therefore is she come down wonderfully, she hath no comforter. 'Behold, O LORD, my affliction, for the enemy hath magnified himself.' (Writings LAM.1.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/comforter/#x3)

### Note

Countable. Note the different meanings in the USA (quilt) and in old British English (scarf, dummy). Capital C for the Holy Spirit.

## On Mova

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