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# foray

«foray» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A quick raid into enemy land to take goods or loot** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A quick raid into enemy land to take goods or loot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foray/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Second Samuel it means a raid by David's men, after which they come back with spoil.

### examples

- And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace. (Prophets 2SA.3.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foray/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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