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# enormity

«enormity» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A very great wickedness or crime** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A very great wickedness or crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enormity/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means a terrible, shameful deed. Hosea says that priests murdered on the road to Shechem, a city of refuge. Interpretation: The prophet is angry that those who should lead in holiness acted like robbers. The tradition treats this as a sign of how far a leader can fall.

### examples

- And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so doth the company of priests; they murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they commit enormity. (Prophets HOS.6.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enormity/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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