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# dispossess

verb

«dispossess» 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

In Deuteronomy it means driving the Canaanite nations out of the land so Israel can take it over.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the dispossession as God's promise being carried out, and Israel is told not to fear nations that seem greater than they are.

### Meaning

To take land or a home away from people who live there, usually by force. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#m1)

### Examples

- If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' (Torah DEU.7.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#x1)
- then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. (Torah DEU.11.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#x2)
- When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; (Torah DEU.12.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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