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# seduce

«seduce» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To lead someone astray, to tempt them into doing wrong** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To lead someone astray, to tempt them into doing wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seduce/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Kings it describes how King Manasseh led his people into worse evil than the nations. Interpretation: Tradition treats Manasseh as an example of a leader whose bad example harms many, yet who was said to repent later.

### examples

- But they hearkened not; and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. (Prophets 2KI.21.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seduce/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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