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# lucre

«lucre» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Money or profit, especially when gotten in a shameful way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Money or profit, especially when gotten in a shameful way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lucre/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Samuel's sons took lucre and bribes, and so they were not fit to judge Israel. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as showing why judges must never take bribes. Their greed led the people to ask for a king.

### examples

- And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (Prophets 1SA.8.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lucre/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.177/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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