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# tottering

«tottering» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **unsteady and about to fall, moving or standing on weak or…** — 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

adjective (also the -ing form of totter)

### meaning for a pupil

Tottering means unsteady and about to fall, moving or standing on weak or shaky legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Describes shaky knees and a weak fence or wall, standing for the weak, the frightened, or those about to fall. Interpretation: Isaiah's call to "make firm the tottering knees" is read as a call to comfort the people and give them courage before the redemption. In the primary lessons: in stories, a tottering person goes slowly and carefully, as if they might fall at any moment

### examples

- Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees. (Prophets ISA.35.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#x1)
- And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me tottering upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. (Writings DAN.10.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#x2)
- How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may slay him, all of you, as a leaning wall, a tottering fence? (Writings PSA.62.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#x3)
- She went tottering to her room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#x4)
- The tottering nurse was helped by a girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#x5)
- The king came tottering down from the throne. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#x6)
- A tottering tower of blocks fell over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tottering/#x7)

### note

nothing for maths; it describes how steady something is and gives no amount.

### In the corpora

- [Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.727/)
- [And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me tottering upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.301/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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