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# abase

«abase» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To make someone lower in rank, pride or dignity; to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To make someone lower in rank, pride or dignity; to humble them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abase/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used of God bringing down the proud and haughty, whether people or kings. Interpretation: Tradition reads these verses as saying that God opposes pride and lifts the humble, so no one is too mighty to be brought low.

### examples

- Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and look upon every one that is proud, and abase him. (Writings JOB.40.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abase/#x1)
- Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all His works are truth, and His ways justice; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.' (Writings DAN.4.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abase/#x2)
- thus saith the Lord GOD: The mitre shall be removed, and the crown taken off; this shall be no more the same: that which is low shall be exalted, and that which is high abased. (Prophets EZK.21.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abase/#x3)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1105/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abase» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abase/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.