dispossess

«dispossess» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To take land or a home away from people who live there… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To take land or a home away from people who live there, usually by force. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Deuteronomy it means driving the Canaanite nations out of the land so Israel can take it over. Interpretation: Tradition reads the dispossession as God's promise being carried out, and Israel is told not to fear nations that seem greater than they are.

examples

• If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' (Torah DEU.7.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. (Torah DEU.11.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; (Torah DEU.12.29, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
• If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'
• then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
• So whomsoever the LORD our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

Trees and pragmatics

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