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# impoverish

«impoverish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To make someone poor, or to take away what they own** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

To make someone poor, or to take away what they own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impoverish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: God will strip Tyre of its wealth and power, though it was proud and rich. Interpretation: Zechariah's vision shows God judging proud nations, and tradition reads such passages as proof that human might is not lasting.

### examples

- Behold, the Lord will impoverish her, and He will smite her power into the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. (Prophets ZEC.9.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/impoverish/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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