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# rapine

«rapine» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Taking things by force, robbery or plunder** — 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

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Taking things by force, robbery or plunder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rapine/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means violent robbery. Nahum uses it for the guilt of Nineveh, a city full of lies and plunder. Interpretation: The prophet says that violence and lies bring a city down. The tradition reads Nineveh's fall as a lesson that God judges cruel empires.

### examples

- It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not. (Prophets NAM.3.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rapine/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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