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# expounder

«expounder» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who explains a text in detail** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who explains a text in detail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expounder/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Jewish tradition honors its commentators, who study and explain the sacred books.

### examples

- All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expounder/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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