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# contrition

«contrition» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **deep sorrow and regret for wrongdoing** — 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

### meaning for a pupil

deep sorrow and regret for wrongdoing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contrition/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The verse has the sense of being brought low, crushed, so that people turn back to God. Interpretation: Tradition links it to teshuvah, return or repentance, which God invites.

### examples

- Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.' (Writings PSA.90.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contrition/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1620/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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