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# lewdness

«lewdness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Shameful or sinful behaviour in sexual matters** — 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

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Shameful or sinful behaviour in sexual matters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lewdness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It refers to forbidden sexual relations that would defile the land. Interpretation: The Rabbis read these laws as the rules of holiness that keep family and society pure.

### examples

- Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness. (Torah LEV.19.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lewdness/#x1)
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are near kinswomen; it is lewdness. (Torah LEV.18.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lewdness/#x2)
- Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. (Prophets EZK.16.58, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lewdness/#x3)
- Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy harlotry, on the hills in the field have I seen thy detestable acts. (Prophets JER.13.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lewdness/#x4)
- Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. (Prophets EZK.23.48, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lewdness/#x5)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.370/)
- [Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.619/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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