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# founder

«founder» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who starts a school, company, club, charity or city** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (founder, founders); verb (founder, founders, foundered, foundering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who starts a school, company, club, charity or city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#m1)

2) (verb) Of a ship: to fill with water and sink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#m2)

3) (verb) Of a plan: to fail or come to nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#m3)

4) (verb) Of a horse: to go lame, or to stumble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it means the one that begins or sets up an idea. In Jeremiah it means a metalworker who melts and refines silver. Interpretation: The "Illuminating Intelligence" is one of the thirty-two paths of wisdom, read by tradition as a stage on the way to understanding holiness. Jeremiah's founder refines in vain, which the tradition reads as a picture of a people too wicked to be purified. In the primary lessons: In history it names the person who began something: «the founder of the school». In stories at sea, a ship that founders is sinking. In business news, plans founder when they fail. Phrases: founder of, co-founder, Founder's Day, founder on the rocks.

### examples

- the founder of the concealed and fundamental ideas of holiness and of their stages of preparation. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x1)
- The Fourteenth Path is the Illuminating Intelligence, and is so called because it is itself that CHASHMAL which is the founder of the concealed and fundamental ideas of holiness and of their stages of preparation. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x2)
- The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated. (Prophets JER.6.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x3)
- The founder of our school was a kind teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x4)
- Every year we celebrate Founder's Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x5)
- She is the co-founder of a children's charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x6)
- The little boat foundered in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x7)
- Their plan foundered because nobody had enough money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x8)
- The founder of the club still comes to every meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x9)
- The Romans looked upon him as their special protector, and declared him to have been the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of their city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/founder/#x10)

### note

Related: found (to start something), foundation. Do not confuse «founder» (sink, fail) with «flounder» (to struggle clumsily; also a flat fish). The noun is common; the verb is mostly in stories and the news.

### Trees and pragmatics

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