extortion

«extortion» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Taking money or goods from people by force or threats — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Taking money or goods from people by force or threats. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means the cruel oppression that will end when God's justice comes. Interpretation: The prophets teach that God cares for the oppressed and shelters the outcast.

examples

• Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land; (Prophets ISA.16.4, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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