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# wayfaring

adjective (wayfaring); noun (wayfaring — uncountable)

«wayfaring» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Travelling, especially on foot from place to place: a wayfaring man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#m1)
2. The act of travelling on foot (old). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#m2)

### In the lessons

An old and poetic word. In The Wind in the Willows chapter «Wayfarers All», the Sea Rat, a wayfaring rat, tells Water Rat about faraway ports and almost tempts him to leave the river; Mole has to hold him back. Old songs talk of «a poor wayfaring stranger». A wayfarer is a traveller. The wayfaring tree is a real English shrub growing by old paths.

### Examples

- The wayfaring Sea Rat told stories of distant lands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#x1)
- «Wayfarers All» is a chapter in The Wind in the Willows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#x2)
- The wayfaring man rested by the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#x3)
- Swallows feel the wayfaring urge in autumn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#x4)
- The old song tells of a wayfaring stranger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#x5)
- The wayfaring tree grows along chalky lanes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#x6)
- A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfaring/#x7)

### Note

Old-fashioned; noun for the person: «wayfarer». Today say «travelling».

## In Jewish tradition

A wayfaring man is a traveler who walks the roads. Empty roads show that a land is wrecked and unsafe.

**Interpretation.** The traveler's lodging is a symbol of Israel's duty to welcome guests. Jeremiah's wish for a lodging place is read as his deep grief at his people's sins.

### Examples

- The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth; he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man. (Prophets ISA.33.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wayfaring/#x1)
- Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! (Prophets JER.9.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wayfaring/#x2)
- And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the broad place of the city; and the old man said: 'Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?' (Prophets JDG.19.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wayfaring/#x3)

### Note

Old-fashioned; noun for the person: «wayfarer». Today say «travelling».

## On Mova

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