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# outwit

«outwit» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to beat them by being cleverer than they are, often by a…** — 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 (outwit, outwits, outwitted, outwitting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To outwit someone is to beat them by being cleverer than they are, often by a trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#m1)

2) (in tales) A clever little hero outwits a giant or a fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Genesis it translates a word meaning that Jacob stole Laban's heart by leaving secretly. Interpretation: The commentators discuss Jacob's secret flight and whether it was a trick, as Laban claimed. In the primary lessons: in stories the clever small hero gets the better of a bigger, stupider enemy; in talk «you can't outwit me» means you can't trick me

### examples

- And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. (Torah GEN.31.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x1)
- And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? (Torah GEN.31.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x2)
- Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; (Torah GEN.31.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x3)
- I did not see that you were outwitting me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x4)
- The little dwarf outwitted the great useless creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x5)
- I must outwit these fish somehow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.956/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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