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# jawbone

«jawbone» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The bone of the jaw, especially the lower jaw** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The bone of the jaw, especially the lower jaw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jawbone/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the story of Samson, he uses the jawbone of a donkey as a weapon to defeat a thousand Philistines. Interpretation: Tradition sees this as a sign that God gave Samson strength to deliver Israel, even with such a simple tool.

### examples

- And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith. (Prophets JDG.15.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jawbone/#x1)
- And Samson said: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men. (Prophets JDG.15.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jawbone/#x2)
- And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi. (Prophets JDG.15.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jawbone/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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