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# pate

«pate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The top of the head** — 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

### meaning for a pupil

The top of the head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The verse teaches that evil comes back on the one who does it, a justice the tradition sees in God's rule.

### examples

- His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate. (Writings PSA.7.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pate/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.82/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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