captivate

«captivate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To charm someone so that they cannot look away, or to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To charm someone so that they cannot look away, or to take them captive by beauty. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to catch a man with the glance of a woman's eyes, and so to lead him into sin. Interpretation: Proverbs warns the young man to guard his heart and eyes. The tradition reads the warning as being about self-control as well as about the immoral woman.

examples

• Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids. (Writings PRO.6.25, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «captivate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.