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# loftiness

«loftiness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The quality of being very high or proud** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The quality of being very high or proud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/loftiness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the prophets it means human pride, which God will bring down. Interpretation: Isaiah says that on "that day" only the LORD will be high. Tradition reads this as the lesson that arrogance leads to a fall.

### examples

- We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness, and the assumption of his heart. (Prophets JER.48.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/loftiness/#x1)
- And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. (Prophets ISA.2.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/loftiness/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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