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# distrain

«distrain» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To seize a person's property as payment for a debt** — 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 seize a person's property as payment for a debt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distrain/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The psalm calls for a creditor to take everything a wicked man owns, as a harsh punishment.

### examples

- Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour. (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distrain/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2025/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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