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# peremptory

«peremptory» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Strict and not allowing any argument or delay** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Strict and not allowing any argument or delay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/peremptory/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used for the king's harsh order, which could not be refused. Interpretation: In Daniel the tradition sees this as the pride of foreign kings, which God is able to overturn to save His faithful servants.

### examples

- he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain: 'Wherefore is the decree so peremptory from the king?' Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. (Writings DAN.2.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/peremptory/#x1)
- Therefore because the king's commandment was peremptory, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. (Writings DAN.3.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/peremptory/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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