spurn
part of speech
verb
meaning for a pupil
To refuse or push away something with scorn. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Proverbs tells a son not to reject God's correction. Interpretation: Tradition reads God's rebuke as like a father's discipline: it comes out of love and is meant to teach.
examples
- My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction; (Writings PRO.3.11, JPS 1917) tree →
note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
In the corpora
- And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.
- My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «spurn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.