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# minstrel

«minstrel» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A minstrel was, long ago, a singer or musician who…** — 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 (minstrel, minstrels)

### meaning for a pupil

A minstrel was, long ago, a singer or musician who travelled from place to place singing songs and telling tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minstrel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A minstrel is a musician. Here it is a player of a stringed instrument whose music helps a prophet receive prophecy. Interpretation: Tradition reads Elisha's request as showing that joy and calm of mind help prophecy to come, while anger or sadness does not. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales and old stories, the musician who sings at a castle or in the woods

### examples

- The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels. (Writings PSA.68.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minstrel/#x1)
- But now bring me a minstrel.' And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. (Prophets 2KI.3.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minstrel/#x2)
- The minstrel played his harp in the great hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minstrel/#x3)
- A minstrel sang of brave knights and dragons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minstrel/#x4)
- The children gathered to hear the minstrel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/minstrel/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1116/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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