{"def":{"short":"an adulteress (literally or figuratively)","long":["an adulteress","as the intimate alliance of God with the people of Israel was likened to a marriage, those who relapse into idolatry are said to commit adultery or play the harlot",["figuratively equivalent to faithless to God, unclean, apostate"]]},"deriv":"a prolonged form of the feminine of G3432","pronun":{"ipa":"my.xɑˈlis","ipa_mod":"my.xɑˈlis","sbl":"moichalis","dic":"moo-ha-LEES","dic_mod":"moo-ha-LEES"},"see":["G3432"]}