rapine

«rapine» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Taking things by force, robbery or plunder — 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

noun

meaning for a pupil

Taking things by force, robbery or plunder. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means violent robbery. Nahum uses it for the guilt of Nineveh, a city full of lies and plunder. Interpretation: The prophet says that violence and lies bring a city down. The tradition reads Nineveh's fall as a lesson that God judges cruel empires.

examples

• It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not. (Prophets NAM.3.1, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

Trees and pragmatics

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