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# expiate

«expiate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To make up for a wrong or sin by suffering or doing…** — 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 (expiates, expiated, expiating)

### meaning for a pupil

To make up for a wrong or sin by suffering or doing something good, so that the guilt is removed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To expiate is to have sin wiped away or atoned for, often by a sacrifice or by God's mercy. Interpretation: The tradition teaches that after the Temple fell, kindness, truth, prayer and repentance take the place of sacrifice in atoning for sin. Isaiah's lips touched by a coal show a prophet being cleansed for his task. In the primary lessons: in old tales, a wicked person suffers or does penance to pay for a sin

### examples

- By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. (Writings PRO.16.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x1)
- and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated. (Prophets ISA.6.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x2)
- And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.' (Prophets 1SA.3.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x3)
- He tried to expiate his crime by giving his gold to the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x4)
- The king expiated his sin with years of penance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x5)
- Only a kind deed can expiate that wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expiate/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.449/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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