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# graven

«graven» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Carved or cut into stone, wood or metal** — 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

### meaning for a pupil

Carved or cut into stone, wood or metal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graven/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It describes the tablets of the Ten Commandments, engraved by God, and the forbidden carved idol, a graven image. Interpretation: The rabbis read this word as a pun on freedom: do not read charut, graven, but cherut, freedom. They also taught that the second commandment forbids making idols to worship.

### examples

- And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. (Torah EXO.32.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graven/#x1)
- lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Torah DEU.4.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graven/#x2)
- And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel. (Torah EXO.39.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graven/#x3)
- That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! (Writings JOB.19.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graven/#x4)
- For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. (Writings PSA.78.58, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graven/#x5)
- Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me. (Prophets ISA.49.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/graven/#x6)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.961/)
- [So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.549/)
- [And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.223/)
- [As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.225/)
- [Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1099/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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