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# tormentor

«tormentor» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a person who causes pain, fear or trouble to someone…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural tormentors)

### meaning for a pupil

A tormentor is a person who causes pain, fear or trouble to someone, often on purpose and over and over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tormentor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Psalm 137 the tormentors are the Babylonian captors who mocked the exiles and made them sing for fun. Interpretation: Tradition reads this psalm as the grief of exiled Israel by Babylon's rivers. It teaches that a people in mourning cannot sing joyfully for those who hurt them, and that Zion must never be forgotten. In the primary lessons: in stories, the tormentors are the cruel people who hurt or taunt a helpless prisoner or victim

### examples

- For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' (Writings PSA.137.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tormentor/#x1)
- The boy turned to his tormentors and begged them to stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tormentor/#x2)
- The bully was the tormentor of the smaller children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tormentor/#x3)
- His tormentors laughed as he fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tormentor/#x4)
- The cat was a tormentor to the mice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tormentor/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths; it names people, and counting tormentors is simple counting.

### Trees and pragmatics

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