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# spurn

«spurn» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To refuse or push away something with scorn** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To refuse or push away something with scorn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spurn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Proverbs tells a son not to reject God's correction. Interpretation: Tradition reads God's rebuke as like a father's discipline: it comes out of love and is meant to teach.

### examples

- My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction; (Writings PRO.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spurn/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.904/)
- [My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.66/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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