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# espouse

«espouse» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To take up a cause and support it warmly, often as your own** — 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 (espouses, espoused, espousing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To take up a cause and support it warmly, often as your own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#m1)

2) (old use) To marry someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, it means to betroth a woman to a man, here a female servant betrothed to her master or his son. Interpretation: The law of the Hebrew maidservant says the master who takes her as a wife, or gives her to his son, must treat her as a free daughter and not as a slave; the rabbis read this as protecting her dignity. In the primary lessons: in tales, a hero espouses the cause of the poor or of a weaker people against a tyrant

### examples

- And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. (Torah EXO.21.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#x1)
- If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#x2)
- For as a young man espouseth a virgin, so shall thy sons espouse thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. (Prophets ISA.62.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#x3)
- She warmly espoused the cause of the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#x4)
- The knight espoused the cause of the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#x5)
- In the old tale, the prince espoused the princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/espouse/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.588/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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