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# unrighteous

adjective

«unrighteous» 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

In the Torah, an unrighteous witness is one who gives false testimony. The law forbids helping a wicked person in this way.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis teach that false witnesses are severely punished. A court must examine witnesses carefully, and a false witness who tried to harm another receives the punishment he planned for that person.

### Meaning

Not good or fair; wicked. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#m1)

### Examples

- If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; (Torah DEU.19.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x1)
- Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. (Torah EXO.23.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x2)
- Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. (Writings PSA.35.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x3)
- Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? (Writings JOB.31.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x4)
- Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity; (Prophets ISA.10.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x5)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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