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# troubler

«troubler» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who brings trouble or distress to others** — 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

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who brings trouble or distress to others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/troubler/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Achan (Achar) was called the troubler of Israel because he took forbidden goods and brought defeat. Ahab also called Elijah this. Interpretation: Tradition reads Achar's story as a warning that one person's sin can harm everyone. Elijah's reply to Ahab is that the real troubler is the king who abandoned God.

### examples

- And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing. (Writings 1CH.2.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/troubler/#x1)
- And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him: 'Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?' (Prophets 1KI.18.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/troubler/#x2)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.73/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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