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# brotherhood

«brotherhood» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Friendship and loyalty between people, like the feeling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (brotherhood, uncountable; a brotherhood, brotherhoods)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Friendship and loyalty between people, like the feeling between brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#m1)

2) A group or society of people with the same aims or job, such as a religious brotherhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#m2)

3) The relationship of being brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Tradition reads the broken staff "Binders" as the end of unity between Judah and Israel. The prophet shows that the kingdom's bond of kinship was cut. In the primary lessons: In stories, history and church life it appears in ideas of fairness and peace ("the brotherhood of all people") and in names of groups like monks or trade unions. Phrases: "brotherhood of man", "a sense of brotherhood", "a religious brotherhood".

### examples

- Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken. (Prophets ZEC.11.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x1)
- The team felt a strong sense of brotherhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x2)
- Martin Luther King dreamed of brotherhood between all people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x3)
- The monks lived together as a brotherhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x4)
- Songs about peace often talk about brotherhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x5)
- War broke the brotherhood between the two towns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x6)
- Their brotherhood lasted all their lives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x7)
- Hercules was touched with the little man's dauntless courage, and could not help acknowledging such a brotherhood with him as one hero feels for another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brotherhood/#x8)

### note

Can be uncountable (a feeling) or countable (a group). Although it says "brother", it often includes everyone; the word "sisterhood" is used for women.

### In the corpora

- [Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.169/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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