demolish

«demolish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To knock something down completely so that it is destroyed — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To knock something down completely so that it is destroyed. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here God commands Israel to wipe out the Canaanites' idols and their high places, where idols were worshiped. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a command to remove idol worship from the land so that Israel would not be led astray.

examples

• then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places. (Torah NUM.33.52, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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