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# captivate

«captivate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To charm someone so that they cannot look away, or 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 charm someone so that they cannot look away, or to take them captive by beauty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/captivate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to catch a man with the glance of a woman's eyes, and so to lead him into sin. Interpretation: Proverbs warns the young man to guard his heart and eyes. The tradition reads the warning as being about self-control as well as about the immoral woman.

### examples

- Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids. (Writings PRO.6.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/captivate/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.166/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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