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# gossamer

noun

«gossamer» 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

Job's friend Bildad uses it for something that cannot bear weight, like the trust of the wicked.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the saying as a warning that trust in anything but God is as flimsy as a spider's web.

### Meaning

Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gossamer/#m1)

### Examples

- Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web. (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gossamer/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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