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# gossamer

«gossamer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin…** — 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

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gossamer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Job's friend Bildad uses it for something that cannot bear weight, like the trust of the wicked. Interpretation: Tradition reads the saying as a warning that trust in anything but God is as flimsy as a spider's web.

### examples

- Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web. (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gossamer/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.189/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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