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# noisome

«noisome» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Having a very nasty smell: «a noisome swamp»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (noisome; more noisome, most noisome — formal, literary)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (literary) Having a very nasty smell: «a noisome swamp». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#m1)

2) (old) Harmful or very unpleasant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means harmful and foul, as in a deadly plague or bad weeds, or a sore with a bad smell. In the primary lessons: A rare literary word for disgusting places in stories: dungeons, sewers, rubbish tips. In the Bible (Psalm 91) God protects from «the noisome pestilence» (a harmful disease).

### examples

- My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness. (Writings PSA.38.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x1)
- Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. (Writings JOB.31.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x2)
- That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. (Writings PSA.91.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x3)
- A noisome smell came from the drain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x4)
- The prisoners lay in a noisome dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x5)
- Flies buzzed over the noisome rubbish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x6)
- The psalm speaks of the noisome pestilence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x7)
- The pond had become a noisome swamp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x8)
- We held our noses near the noisome bins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x9)
- "No," replied the sturdy lad, "the pigeon is for my seven blind mothers, who live in the noisome dungeon, and who would die if I did not bring them food." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/noisome/#x10)

### note

Trap: «noisome» has nothing to do with noise! It comes from an old word «noy» (annoy). It means smelly or harmful, not loud.

### In the corpora

- [It hath wearied itself with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.633/)
- [My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.619/)
- [That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1638/)
- [Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.821/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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