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# oftentimes

«oftentimes» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Many times; often** — 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

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Many times; often. An old-fashioned word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/oftentimes/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used in Ecclesiastes to say that you have often done to others what you hate in them. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a call to be humble and not judge others harshly, since we too have faults.

### examples

- for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. (Writings ECC.7.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/oftentimes/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.144/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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