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# unhewn

«unhewn» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **not cut or shaped with tools** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Unhewn means not cut or shaped with tools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unhewn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The Torah commands that the altar be built of whole, uncut stones. Interpretation: Tradition says iron, which makes weapons, must not touch the altar, which brings peace, so the stones stayed whole.

### examples

- Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God. (Torah DEU.27.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unhewn/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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