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# badness

«badness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The state of being bad; poor quality or evil** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The state of being bad; poor quality or evil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/badness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Pharaoh says the thin cows were worse than any he had seen in Egypt. They are a sign of the coming famine. Interpretation: Joseph explained that the thin cows meant seven years of hunger. The tradition sees God warning Pharaoh through dreams.

### examples

- And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. (Torah GEN.41.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/badness/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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