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# impious

«impious» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **showing no respect for the gods or for holy things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Impious means showing no respect for the gods or for holy things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means ungodly, someone with no reverence for God. Job calls his wife's words those of a foolish, godless woman. Interpretation: Job's answer to his wife shows his faith: he will accept bad from God as well as good. Tradition praises him for not sinning with his lips. In the primary lessons: describes a king or people in myths who insult the gods and are punished

### examples

- But he said unto her: 'Thou speakest as one of the impious women speaketh. (Writings JOB.2.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impious/#x1)
- With his mouth the impious man destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered. (Writings PRO.11.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impious/#x2)
- The impious king was punished. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impious/#x3)
- An impious mortal ignored the gods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impious/#x4)
- Their impious plan was stopped by Apollo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impious/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [With his mouth the impious man destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.299/)
- [But he said unto her: 'Thou speakest as one of the impious women speaketh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.32/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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