convulse

«convulse» in Mova's judaism dictionary: to shake violently — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

to shake violently tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: God makes Babylon's drunk revelers shake and then sleep forever. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a picture of Babylon's sudden fall in the midst of feasting.

examples

• With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. (Prophets JER.51.39, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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