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# forestall

«forestall» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To act ahead of someone or something and get there first…** — 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 act ahead of someone or something and get there first, or to stop it from happening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forestall/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here the psalmist wakes before the night-watches (the set parts of the night) even begin, so he can think about God's word. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as devotion to Torah study: the psalmist rises in the night, before dawn, to learn and pray.

### examples

- Mine eyes forestalled the night-watches, that I might meditate in Thy word. (Writings PSA.119.148, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forestall/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Mine eyes forestalled the night-watches, that I might meditate in Thy word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2313/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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