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# downfall

«downfall» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A sudden fall, ruin or loss of power or success** — 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

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A sudden fall, ruin or loss of power or success. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/downfall/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means the coming down of hail on a forest, a picture of judgment. Interpretation: Isaiah's image is read as God humbling the proud, with a hope for peace afterward.

### examples

- And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley. (Prophets ISA.32.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/downfall/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.679/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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