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# faithless

«faithless» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **not loyal, breaking a promise or failing to keep a friend…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (more faithless, most faithless)

### meaning for a pupil

Faithless means not loyal, breaking a promise or failing to keep a friend true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/faithless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means someone who is disloyal and breaks faith, especially with God or with other people. Interpretation: Proverbs and Psalms warn against the faithless, who break the covenant and do not keep God's word. In the primary lessons: in tales a faithless friend or lover betrays someone; in the lessons it names someone who breaks trust

### examples

- Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh. (Writings PRO.13.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/faithless/#x1)
- She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men. (Writings PRO.23.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/faithless/#x2)
- I beheld them that were faithless, and strove with them; because they observed not Thy word. (Writings PSA.119.158, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/faithless/#x3)
- The faithless knight broke his oath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/faithless/#x4)
- Do not trust a faithless friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/faithless/#x5)
- She was faithless to her promise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/faithless/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [If I had said: 'I will speak thus', behold, I had been faithless to the generation of Thy children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1234/)
- [I beheld them that were faithless, and strove with them; because they observed not Thy word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2323/)
- [But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.55/)
- [The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.293/)
- [The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; but the faithless shall be trapped in their own crafty device.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.296/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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