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# constrained

«constrained» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **urged strongly or pressed someone to do something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

urged strongly or pressed someone to do something [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/constrained/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means the Shunammite woman pressed Elisha to eat with her, as kind hospitality. Interpretation: Her welcome of the prophet is held up as a model of hospitality.

### examples

- And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. (Prophets 2KI.4.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/constrained/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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