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# straying

«straying» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/straying/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness. The word is "strayings" because their faithlessness was held to be the reason. Interpretation: Tradition reads the forty years as one year for each day the spies explored the land. It is a punishment that fits the crime.

### examples

- And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/straying/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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