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# craunch

«craunch» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **An old word meaning to crunch or chew noisily** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

An old word meaning to crunch or chew noisily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/craunch/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Ezekiel says Jerusalem will drink the cup of wrath, drain it, and gnaw the broken pieces. Interpretation: The cup is a common picture of God's judgment. The image of gnawing the pieces shows the full, bitter result of sin.

### examples

- Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Prophets EZK.23.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/craunch/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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