foray

«foray» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A quick raid into enemy land to take goods or loot — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A quick raid into enemy land to take goods or loot. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Second Samuel it means a raid by David's men, after which they come back with spoil.

examples

• And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace. (Prophets 2SA.3.22, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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