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# alienate

verb

«alienate» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means to hand over the first portion of the land, which was holy to the LORD, so it could never be sold or traded away.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as a rule that land set apart as holy belongs to God and must stay in its sacred use.

### Meaning

To transfer ownership of something to someone else, or to make someone feel distant or unfriendly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alienate/#m1)

### Examples

- And they shall not sell of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first portion of the land; for it is holy unto the LORD. (Prophets EZK.48.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alienate/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «alienate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alienate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«alienate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/alienate.html) on Mova free.