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# athirst

«athirst» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **very thirsty** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

very thirsty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/athirst/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Judges it describes Samson, who was very thirsty after his fight and prayed to God. Interpretation: Tradition reads it as showing that even a strong hero depends on God. God gave him water, and Samson learned this.

### examples

- And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said: 'Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of Thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?' (Prophets JDG.15.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/athirst/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «athirst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/athirst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.