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# extortion

«extortion» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Taking money or goods from people by force or threats** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Taking money or goods from people by force or threats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/extortion/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means the cruel oppression that will end when God's justice comes. Interpretation: The prophets teach that God cares for the oppressed and shelters the outcast.

### examples

- Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land; (Prophets ISA.16.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/extortion/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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