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# surcease

«surcease» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An end or stop to something, a pause or rest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An end or stop to something, a pause or rest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/surcease/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The psalmist cries day and night with no rest and no answer from God. Interpretation: Tradition reads Psalm 22 as the cry of one who feels abandoned. It is also read as the voice of Queen Esther and of Israel in exile.

### examples

- O my God, I call by day, but Thou answerest not; and at night, and there is no surcease for me. (Writings PSA.22.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/surcease/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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