dispossessed
part of speech
verb
meaning for a pupil
Past form of dispossess: took land or a home away from people by force. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Numbers it tells how Machir's family drove the Amorites out of Gilead and settled there. Interpretation: Tradition counts this as part of the tribes' settling east of the Jordan, which Moses allowed.
examples
- And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein. (Torah NUM.32.39, JPS 1917) tree →
- So whomsoever the LORD our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess. (Prophets JDG.11.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- So now the LORD, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before His people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them? (Prophets JDG.11.23, 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.
- So whomsoever the LORD our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dispossessed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.