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# murrain

«murrain» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A deadly disease of cattle and farm animals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A deadly disease of cattle and farm animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/murrain/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is the fifth plague on Egypt, which struck Egyptian livestock and left Israel's animals unharmed. Interpretation: Tradition sees it as a measure-for-measure plague, striking the animals Egypt used and worshipped.

### examples

- behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain. (Torah EXO.9.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/murrain/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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