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# latchet

noun

«latchet» 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

Abram uses a shoe-latchet as the smallest possible thing to refuse from the king of Sodom. Isaiah uses a broken latchet as a picture of an army so strong and ready that nothing about it fails.

**Interpretation.** Tradition praises Abram for refusing any reward, so that no one could say he was made rich by anyone but God.

### Meaning

An old word for a strap or lace that fastens a shoe or sandal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/latchet/#m1)

### Examples

- that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich; (Torah GEN.14.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/latchet/#x1)
- None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken; (Prophets ISA.5.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/latchet/#x2)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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