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# pestle

«pestle» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A heavy stick with a rounded end, used for crushing and…** — 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 (plural pestles)

### meaning for a pupil

A heavy stick with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding things in a mortar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pestle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A tool for pounding grain or spices in a mortar. Interpretation: Proverbs says even such pounding will not remove a fool's folly. The tradition reads this as a warning that only wisdom and character change a person. In the primary lessons: in tales a witch rides in a mortar and uses a pestle to steer or to beat people

### examples

- Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. (Writings PRO.27.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pestle/#x1)
- Grind the herbs with the pestle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pestle/#x2)
- The witch pushed her mortar along with the pestle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pestle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; counting pestles is only counting objects.

### In the corpora

- [Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.799/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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