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# swoon

«swoon» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to faint, or fall into a deep sleep-like state** — 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 (swoon, swoons, swooned, swooning); noun (a swoon)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To swoon is to faint, or fall into a deep sleep-like state. (old use) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#m1)

2) A swoon is a faint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Tradition reads Lamentations as grief over the fall of Jerusalem, when even children fainted from hunger. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales a person falls down in a faint, often from love or shock; the word is older than «faint»

### examples

- Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt swoon; thou also shalt seek a refuge because of the enemy. (Prophets NAM.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#x1)
- They say to their mothers: 'Where is corn and wine?' when they swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. (Writings LAM.2.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#x2)
- Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people; because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city. (Writings LAM.2.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#x3)
- She swooned at the sight of the prince. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#x4)
- He fell into a swoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#x5)
- The king's daughter nearly swooned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/swoon/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt swoon; thou also shalt seek a refuge because of the enemy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.44/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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