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# execration

«execration» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A curse, or something hated and spoken of with horror** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A curse, or something hated and spoken of with horror. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/execration/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means a person or place that becomes a curse-word. People say "may you be like that" as a warning. Interpretation: The prophets warn that the people could become a byword of cursing if they broke the covenant. The tradition sees the exile as the covenant curses coming true.

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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