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# offender

«offender» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who has broken the law or done a crime** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an offender, offenders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who has broken the law or done a crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#m1)

2) A person or thing that causes a problem or does something wrong: «The worst offender for noise was the dog.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a person judged guilty of a wrong, a sinner, or someone who is falsely accused. In the primary lessons: In law, news and citizenship lessons: «young offenders», «first-time offender», «repeat offender». In everyday talk, people joke about the «worst offender» for leaving dishes or being late. It tells the reader someone has done wrong.

### examples

- Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.' (Prophets 1KI.1.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x1)
- That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought. (Prophets ISA.29.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x2)
- The police caught the offender near the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x3)
- Young offenders may be given community work instead of prison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x4)
- He was a first-time offender, so the judge gave him a warning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x5)
- In our house, the worst offender for leaving lights on is my brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x6)
- Repeat offenders are people who keep breaking the law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x7)
- Fizzy drinks are the main offender for bad teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x8)
- The incensed deities now combined to punish the offender. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offender/#x9)

### note

Countable. From the verb «offend» (to break a law, or to upset someone). Related: offence (UK, Ireland, Australia) / offense (US). Use «an» before it. Trap: «offended» means upset, not the same as being an offender.

### Trees and pragmatics

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