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# indictment

«indictment» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A formal written charge accusing someone of a wrong** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A formal written charge accusing someone of a wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/indictment/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Job wishes that God would show the written charge against him so he could answer. Interpretation: Job's courtroom language shows his demand for justice. Tradition sees it as bold but honest, and God does answer him in the end.

### examples

- Oh that I had one to hear me! — Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me — and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written! (Writings JOB.31.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/indictment/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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