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# tiller

«tiller» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who works the land, a farmer** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who works the land, a farmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tiller/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Job, the "tillers" are the farmers who work the land, and Job swears he never cheated them. Interpretation: Job's oath shows his claim to be just in all dealings. The tradition sees mistreating workers or taking the land's produce unfairly as a serious wrong.

### examples

- If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed — (Writings JOB.31.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tiller/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.88/)
- [If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.820/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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