constrained

«constrained» in Mova's judaism dictionary: urged strongly or pressed someone to do something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

urged strongly or pressed someone to do something tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means the Shunammite woman pressed Elisha to eat with her, as kind hospitality. Interpretation: Her welcome of the prophet is held up as a model of hospitality.

examples

• And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. (Prophets 2KI.4.8, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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