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# intercessor

«intercessor» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who pleads with another for someone else's sake** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who pleads with another for someone else's sake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intercessor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Bible it means someone who speaks for others before God, or sometimes a mediator or interpreter. Job also speaks of an angel as an intercessor. Interpretation: Tradition understands that prophets, priests, and sometimes angels may speak for people, though some commentators say that a person's own good deeds are the best defenders.

### examples

- Thy first father sinned, and thine intercessors have transgressed against Me. (Prophets ISA.43.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intercessor/#x1)
- Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God; (Writings JOB.16.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intercessor/#x2)
- If there be for him an angel, an intercessor, one among a thousand, to vouch for a man's uprightness; (Writings JOB.33.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intercessor/#x3)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Thy first father sinned, and thine intercessors have transgressed against Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.967/)
- [Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.424/)
- [If there be for him an angel, an intercessor, one among a thousand, to vouch for a man's uprightness;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.867/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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