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# unrighteous

«unrighteous» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Not good or fair; wicked** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Not good or fair; wicked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, an unrighteous witness is one who gives false testimony. The law forbids helping a wicked person in this way. Interpretation: The rabbis teach that false witnesses are severely punished. A court must examine witnesses carefully, and a false witness who tried to harm another receives the punishment he planned for that person.

### examples

- If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; (Torah DEU.19.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x1)
- Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. (Torah EXO.23.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x2)
- Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. (Writings PSA.35.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x3)
- Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? (Writings JOB.31.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x4)
- Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity; (Prophets ISA.10.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unrighteous/#x5)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.648/)
- [If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.536/)
- [Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.211/)
- [Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.540/)
- [O my God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1175/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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