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# sottish

«sottish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Foolish or dull, as if stupid with drink** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Foolish or dull, as if stupid with drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sottish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jeremiah calls the people foolish children who are clever at evil but ignorant of good. Interpretation: Tradition reads it as a warning that cleverness without the knowledge of God is true foolishness.

### examples

- For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. (Prophets JER.4.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sottish/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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