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# dissemble

«dissemble» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To hide your true feelings or plans by pretending to be…** — 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

verb (dissembles, dissembled, dissembling)

### meaning for a pupil

To hide your true feelings or plans by pretending to be different. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dissemble/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means to hide one's wrongdoing by pretending, or to deal falsely. Achan stole and then hid the stolen goods. Interpretation: Joshua's story of Achan shows that hidden sin affects the whole community. The tradition sees the lesson that secret wrongs cannot be hidden from God. In the primary lessons: in stories a sly character who pretends to be friendly or calm when he is not

### examples

- Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed My covenant which I commanded them; yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing; and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have even put it among their own stuff. (Prophets JOS.7.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dissemble/#x1)
- He tried to dissemble, but his face gave him away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dissemble/#x2)
- She dissembled well and no one guessed her plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dissemble/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.773/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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