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# perversion

«perversion» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A twisting of something good or natural into something wrong** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A twisting of something good or natural into something wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perversion/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Leviticus it names the forbidden act of a person lying with an animal, a confusion of the natural order. Jeremiah uses it for false, twisted speech against the LORD, spoken by the false prophet Hananiah. Interpretation: The law counts it among the serious forbidden unions, and the tradition reads it as mixing what God kept separate. Hananiah's death is read as the punishment for false prophecy.

### examples

- And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto; it is perversion. (Torah LEV.18.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perversion/#x1)
- 'Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken perversion against the LORD.' (Prophets JER.28.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perversion/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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