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# canker

«canker» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A grub or caterpillar-like insect that eats plants** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A grub or caterpillar-like insect that eats plants. The word is used in the name "canker-worm". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canker/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is a kind of locust or its young, which eats crops and arrives in huge swarms. It is a plague and also a picture of a vast army. Interpretation: One of the plagues of Egypt was locusts. The prophets use swarms of them as a picture of armies sent by God to punish nations, such as Nineveh and Babylon.

### examples

- He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number, (Writings PSA.105.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canker/#x1)
- Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away. (Prophets NAM.3.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canker/#x2)
- The LORD of hosts hath sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm, and they shall lift up a shout against thee. (Prophets JER.51.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canker/#x3)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.49/)
- [He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1895/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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