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# captivate

verb

«captivate» 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 catch a man with the glance of a woman's eyes, and so to lead him into sin.

**Interpretation.** Proverbs warns the young man to guard his heart and eyes. The tradition reads the warning as being about self-control as well as about the immoral woman.

### Meaning

To charm someone so that they cannot look away, or to take them captive by beauty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/captivate/#m1)

### Examples

- Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids. (Writings PRO.6.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/captivate/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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