distrain

«distrain» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To seize a person's property as payment for a debt — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To seize a person's property as payment for a debt. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The psalm calls for a creditor to take everything a wicked man owns, as a harsh punishment.

examples

• Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour. (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.

Trees and pragmatics

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