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# stargazer

«stargazer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who studies the stars, especially to tell the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who studies the stars, especially to tell the future. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stargazer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Isaiah mocks the stargazers of Babylon, who claimed to read the future in the sky. Interpretation: The Torah forbids telling the future by the stars, and tradition reads this verse as showing that such wisdom cannot save anyone from what God decrees.

### examples

- Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee. (Prophets ISA.47.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stargazer/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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