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# wanderer

«wanderer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a person or animal that travels from place to place with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wanderer, wanderers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wanderer is a person or animal that travels from place to place with no fixed home or no clear plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#m1)

2) A wanderer can also be someone who likes to roam and explore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, one who has no settled home, like Cain or the Israelites in the desert. The prophets also use it for a homeless stranger in need, and Hosea says Israel will become "wanderers among the nations" for not listening to God. Interpretation: Cain's wandering is read as the result of his murder of Abel. The Israelites' wandering is punishment for their lack of faith. Hosea's words are read as a warning of exile, and Job's care for the needy wanderer is taken as a model of kindness. In the primary lessons: In stories, poems and old tales, wanderers are travellers, knights, pilgrims or lonely figures on the road; the word gives a feeling of freedom or loneliness. In science, «planet» comes from a Greek word meaning «wanderer», because planets move across the night sky against the stars. Phrases: «a lonely wanderer», «the wanderer returns».

### examples

- And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x1)
- When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.' (Torah GEN.4.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x2)
- If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; (Writings JOB.31.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x3)
- Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat. (Prophets ISA.5.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x4)
- My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations. (Prophets HOS.9.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x5)
- The old wanderer slept under the stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x6)
- Our cat is a wanderer and visits every garden on the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x7)
- The ancient Greeks called the planets «wanderers». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x8)
- The wanderer told stories in every village he passed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x9)
- Albatrosses are great wanderers of the southern oceans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x10)
- In the poem, a lonely wanderer walks across the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x11)
- From the remotest days men have been wanderers, and wherever they went their stories accompanied them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x12)

### note

Countable: wanderer, wanderers. From «wander» (to walk around slowly without a plan). Do not confuse «wander» (roam) with «wonder» (think about, be amazed) — different spelling and sound: WON-der vs WUN-der. Wolverhampton Wanderers is a football club (a name).

### In the corpora

- [Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.107/)
- [My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.137/)
- [If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.800/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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