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# alienate

«alienate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To transfer ownership of something to someone else, or to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To transfer ownership of something to someone else, or to make someone feel distant or unfriendly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alienate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to hand over the first portion of the land, which was holy to the LORD, so it could never be sold or traded away. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a rule that land set apart as holy belongs to God and must stay in its sacred use.

### examples

- And they shall not sell of it, nor exchange, nor alienate the first portion of the land; for it is holy unto the LORD. (Prophets EZK.48.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alienate/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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