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# fester

verb

«fester» 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 Psalm 38 the wounds stand for the pain of the speaker's sins and foolishness.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the psalm as a confession of a person who sees his suffering as the result of his wrongs and who turns to God for healing.

### Meaning

To go bad and fill with pus, as an infected wound does. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fester/#m1)

### Examples

- My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness. (Writings PSA.38.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fester/#x1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

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