espouse

«espouse» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To take up a cause and support it warmly, often as your own — 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 (espouses, espoused, espousing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To take up a cause and support it warmly, often as your own. tree →

2) (old use) To marry someone. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, it means to betroth a woman to a man, here a female servant betrothed to her master or his son. Interpretation: The law of the Hebrew maidservant says the master who takes her as a wife, or gives her to his son, must treat her as a free daughter and not as a slave; the rabbis read this as protecting her dignity. In the primary lessons: in tales, a hero espouses the cause of the poor or of a weaker people against a tyrant

examples

• And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. (Torah EXO.21.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• For as a young man espouseth a virgin, so shall thy sons espouse thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. (Prophets ISA.62.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• She warmly espoused the cause of the poor. tree →
• The knight espoused the cause of the village. tree →
• In the old tale, the prince espoused the princess. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Trees and pragmatics

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