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# festering

adjective

«festering» 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

Isaiah describes the people as a body covered with untreated wounds, meaning a nation sick with sin.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as the prophet's warning that Israel's sins have spread through the whole nation and that no one has tried to heal them.

### Meaning

Going bad and full of pus, as an infected wound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/festering/#m1)

### Examples

- From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: they have not been pressed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil. (Prophets ISA.1.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/festering/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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