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# plummet

noun

«plummet» 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

The prophets use it as a picture of God's measure of justice. It can build with righteousness or show a house is crooked and doomed to fall.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads it as God testing people and cities against a true standard, and judging them when they fail.

### Meaning

A weight on a string used to check that a wall is straight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plummet/#m1)

### Examples

- And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. (Prophets ISA.28.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plummet/#x1)
- But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. (Prophets ISA.34.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plummet/#x2)
- And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. (Prophets 2KI.21.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plummet/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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