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# debtor

«debtor» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a person who owes money to someone else** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural debtors)

### meaning for a pupil

A debtor is a person who owes money to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/debtor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A person who owes money. The Torah requires kindness toward such a person. In the primary lessons: in the tales, a debtor owes a debt to a king or a captain, and must pay it back or do a favour

### examples

- The debtor promised to pay back the money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/debtor/#x1)
- The miser was a debtor of the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/debtor/#x2)
- The shopkeeper chased his debtor for the money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/debtor/#x3)

### note

«What is owed to the debtor is taken away from what he has, so the amount he has goes down.»

### Trees and pragmatics

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