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# festering

«festering» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Going bad and full of pus, as an infected wound** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Going bad and full of pus, as an infected wound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/festering/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Isaiah describes the people as a body covered with untreated wounds, meaning a nation sick with sin. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as the prophet's warning that Israel's sins have spread through the whole nation and that no one has tried to heal them.

### examples

- From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: they have not been pressed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil. (Prophets ISA.1.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/festering/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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