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# imposter

«imposter» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who pretends to be someone else, or a fraud** — 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

A person who pretends to be someone else, or a fraud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imposter/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means false prophets and fortune-tellers whose signs God proves empty. Interpretation: Isaiah teaches that only God truly knows the future, so those who claim otherwise will be shown to be fools.

### examples

- That frustrateth the tokens of the imposters, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (Prophets ISA.44.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/imposter/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [That frustrateth the tokens of the imposters, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.998/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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