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# dispossess

«dispossess» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To take land or a home away from people who live there…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To take land or a home away from people who live there, usually by force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Deuteronomy it means driving the Canaanite nations out of the land so Israel can take it over. Interpretation: Tradition reads the dispossession as God's promise being carried out, and Israel is told not to fear nations that seem greater than they are.

### examples

- If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' (Torah DEU.7.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#x1)
- then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. (Torah DEU.11.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#x2)
- When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; (Torah DEU.12.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dispossess/#x3)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1187/)
- [If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.237/)
- [then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.341/)
- [So whomsoever the LORD our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.362/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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