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# tortuous

«tortuous» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Twisting, winding, full of turns and bends** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Twisting, winding, full of turns and bends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tortuous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Describes the leviathan, a great sea serpent, in Isaiah's picture of God's final victory over evil powers. Interpretation: Tradition reads the leviathan as a symbol of the great powers hostile to Israel, or as a creature kept for the righteous in the world to come. God's sword punishes it at the end of days.

### examples

- In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Prophets ISA.27.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tortuous/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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