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# supplanter

«supplanter» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who trips up or pushes aside another to take his…** — 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

A person who trips up or pushes aside another to take his place, often by trickery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supplanter/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The word is linked with Jacob, whose name suggests "heel" and "one who supplants". Here it means enemies who lie in wait. Interpretation: Tradition reads Jacob's name both as a shame and as a sign of a struggle that later turned into the name Israel.

### examples

- Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my supplanters compasseth me about, (Writings PSA.49.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/supplanter/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my supplanters compasseth me about,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.801/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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