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# tenor

«tenor» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The general meaning or sense of something, or the way it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The general meaning or sense of something, or the way it goes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it means the exact words or sense of something written or declared, such as the covenant. Interpretation: God says the covenant is made by the sense of these words, and Jewish tradition says the Written Torah and the teachings of the sages go together.

### examples

- And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.' (Torah EXO.34.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenor/#x1)
- And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee. (Torah DEU.17.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenor/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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