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# wandering

«wandering» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim** — 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

noun (wanderings); adjective (a wandering knight)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wandering is a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#m1)

2) Wandering means moving from place to place with no fixed home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means going from place to place without a home. It can mean being lost, like Joseph looking for his brothers, or a life of exile. Ecclesiastes also uses it for the mind's restless desire. Interpretation: The tradition ties wandering to Abraham, to the desert years and to the exile of the Jewish people. In the primary lessons: a long journey from place to place, often in tales; a wandering person has no home

### examples

- And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field. (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#x1)
- As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home. (Writings PRO.26.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#x2)
- Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book? (Writings PSA.56.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#x3)
- Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind. (Writings ECC.6.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#x4)
- After his wanderings, he came home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#x5)
- The wandering prince had no fixed home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#x6)
- He sat down, tired from his wanderings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wandering/#x7)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1191/)
- [Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.925/)
- [As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.751/)
- [Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.119/)
- [In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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