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# thrum

«thrum» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To strum or pluck a stringed instrument, playing it in a…** — 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

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To strum or pluck a stringed instrument, playing it in a rough or idle way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thrum/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Amos, it describes wealthy people who strum on the harp (psaltery) while ignoring the troubles of their people. Interpretation: Commentators read Amos as rebuking people who enjoy music and comfort and do not care about the nation's suffering or about justice.

### examples

- That thrum on the psaltery, that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David; (Prophets AMO.6.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thrum/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [That thrum on the psaltery, that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.99/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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