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# exaction

«exaction» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Forcing someone to hand over money or goods, often unfairly** — 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

Forcing someone to hand over money or goods, often unfairly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exaction/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means harsh demands for payment, especially taking grain or interest from the poor. Interpretation: The prophets and Nehemiah condemned the rich who squeezed the poor. The tradition says lending should help a neighbor and should not oppress him.

### examples

- I pray you, let us leave off this exaction. (Writings NEH.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exaction/#x1)
- Thus saith the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel; remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from My people, saith the Lord GOD. (Prophets EZK.45.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exaction/#x2)
- Therefore, because ye trample upon the poor, and take from him exactions of wheat; ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them, ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine thereof. (Prophets AMO.5.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/exaction/#x3)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [I pray you, let us leave off this exaction.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.111/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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