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# rigour

«rigour» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Harshness or strictness, and very hard treatment** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Harshness or strictness, and very hard treatment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rigour/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it means cruel, harsh work forced on slaves, as the Egyptians did to Israel. The Torah forbids Israelites to do this to those who serve them. Interpretation: The rabbis said it means giving work with no end or purpose, only to make someone suffer. They taught that people must treat servants with kindness.

### examples

- And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. (Torah EXO.1.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rigour/#x1)
- Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. (Torah LEV.25.43, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rigour/#x2)
- As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. (Torah LEV.25.53, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rigour/#x3)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.14/)
- [Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.776/)
- [As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.786/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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