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# lop

«lop» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to cut off with one swift stroke, such as a branch or a head** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (lops, lopped, lopping)

### meaning for a pupil

To lop is to cut off with one swift stroke, such as a branch or a head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lop/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means to cut off branches. In Isaiah it pictures God cutting down proud trees. Interpretation: The trees stand for proud kings and nations. Commentators read the lopping as God's judgment on Assyria, and the lofty brought low. In the primary lessons: in tales, a hero lops off the heads of a monster

### examples

- Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the boughs with terror; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be laid low. (Prophets ISA.10.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lop/#x1)
- For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the shoots will He take away and lop off. (Prophets ISA.18.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lop/#x2)
- The hero lopped off the dragon's head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lop/#x3)
- Dad lopped the dead branch off the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lop/#x4)
- Jason lopped the branch from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lop/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths in general; 'lop off 9' takes 9 away, so the count goes down by 9.

### Trees and pragmatics

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