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# lucre

noun

«lucre» 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

Samuel's sons took lucre and bribes, and so they were not fit to judge Israel.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as showing why judges must never take bribes. Their greed led the people to ask for a king.

### Meaning

Money or profit, especially when gotten in a shameful way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lucre/#m1)

### Examples

- And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (Prophets 1SA.8.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lucre/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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