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# ungodliness

«ungodliness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Wickedness, a lack of respect for God** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Wickedness, a lack of respect for God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/ungodliness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jeremiah says that godlessness spread across the land from the false prophets of Jerusalem. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a warning that leaders and teachers carry special responsibility, because their bad example spreads wrong behavior to everyone.

### examples

- Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land. (Prophets JER.23.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/ungodliness/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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