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# cheapen

«cheapen» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To make something less valuable, or to treat it as of…** — 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 something less valuable, or to treat it as of little worth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cheapen/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Jeremiah scolds Israel for treating its loyalty to God lightly by running after other nations. Tradition reads this as a warning against abandoning one's covenant for foreign allies.

### examples

- How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way? (Prophets JER.2.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cheapen/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.65/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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