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# famish

«famish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To make or let someone go hungry, or to starve** — 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 make or let someone go hungry, or to starve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/famish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Proverbs teaches that God provides for the righteous. Zephaniah sees God making the false gods powerless, so all nations will worship Him.

### examples

- The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but He thrusteth away the desire of the wicked. (Writings PRO.10.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/famish/#x1)
- The LORD will be terrible unto them; for He will famish all the gods of the earth; then shall all the isles of the nations worship Him, every one from its place. (Prophets ZEP.2.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/famish/#x2)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but He thrusteth away the desire of the wicked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.261/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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