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# wittingly

«wittingly» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **doing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

On purpose, knowing what one is doing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wittingly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jacob crossed his hands on purpose when blessing Ephraim and Manasseh. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as Jacob knowing exactly what he was doing, giving the greater blessing to the younger son by prophetic insight.

### examples

- And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. (Torah GEN.48.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wittingly/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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