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# constrained

verb

«constrained» 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 the Shunammite woman pressed Elisha to eat with her, as kind hospitality.

**Interpretation.** Her welcome of the prophet is held up as a model of hospitality.

### Meaning

urged strongly or pressed someone to do something [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/constrained/#m1)

### Examples

- And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. (Prophets 2KI.4.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/constrained/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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