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# stripling

«stripling» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **no longer a child but not yet fully grown** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An old word for a boy or young man who is no longer a child but not yet fully grown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripling/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it is David, a young shepherd before he faces Goliath. Interpretation: Tradition notes that Saul seems not to recognize David. Commentators explain this in different ways.

### examples

- And the king said: 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.' (Prophets 1SA.17.56, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripling/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And the king said: 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.512/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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