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# piercing

«piercing» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A sharp stab or wound, as by a pointed thing** — 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

A sharp stab or wound, as by a pointed thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/piercing/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Proverbs contrasts careless words that wound with wise words that heal. The tradition treats harmful speech as a serious sin.

### examples

- There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health. (Writings PRO.12.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/piercing/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.339/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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