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# belie

«belie» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To tell lies about someone or to deny the truth about them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To tell lies about someone or to deny the truth about them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/belie/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The people deny the LORD by saying that no harm will come and that He will do nothing. Interpretation: The prophet Jeremiah treats this as a sin: refusing to believe God's warnings and so ignoring His justice.

### examples

- They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine; (Prophets JER.5.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/belie/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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