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# straying

noun

«straying» 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 Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness. The word is "strayings" because their faithlessness was held to be the reason.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the forty years as one year for each day the spies explored the land. It is a punishment that fits the crime.

### Meaning

Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/straying/#m1)

### Examples

- And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/straying/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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