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# convulse

«convulse» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to shake violently** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

to shake violently [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/convulse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: God makes Babylon's drunk revelers shake and then sleep forever. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a picture of Babylon's sudden fall in the midst of feasting.

### examples

- With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. (Prophets JER.51.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/convulse/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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