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# mildew

noun

«mildew» 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

It is named among the curses that come if Israel breaks the covenant. It means a disease that spoils crops.

**Interpretation.** The curses in Deuteronomy are read by tradition as a warning, and as a call to return to God.

### Meaning

A thin white or grey fungus that grows on plants, walls or cloth in damp places. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mildew/#m1)

### Examples

- The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. (Torah DEU.28.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mildew/#x1)
- I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD — (Prophets HAG.2.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mildew/#x2)
- I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD. (Prophets AMO.4.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mildew/#x3)
- If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; (Prophets 1KI.8.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mildew/#x4)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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