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# spurn

verb

«spurn» 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

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.

### Meaning

To refuse or push away something with scorn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spurn/#m1)

### Examples

- My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction; (Writings PRO.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spurn/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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