Expressions (A–Z)
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Forbidden fruit
A metaphor for something forbidden that one longs to obtain or do.
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G
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Giving Thanks and Confessing
See: "Confession and Confession."
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Greater than a burden, more than a burden, many more than a burden.
Too great for me to bear; excessive; far too many.
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Ham sinned and Canaan was cursed/ one sin and the other is punished (said when a person is punished for others' sins)
Figuratively, in a literary style: one person sinned, and another was punished?!
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Hardened His Neck
Revealed stubbornness. Insisted on not obeying. Did not change his mind with exc...
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Have you killed, and also taken possession?!
In response: Is it your intention to inherit the property of the man you killed?...
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He caused the many to sin
Caused many people to sin. Misled or enticed the multitudes to commit an act of...
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He destroyed them all.
He overcame or subdued all of them. In question: Consider the remainder of them....
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He has no atonement
Unforgivable. His sin is never pardoned. By extension: an act or crime of the ut...
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He has no share in the World to Come
He will not merit to arrive and be in Paradise in the World to Come (the origina...
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