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# upheave

«upheave» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To lift up or heave violently from below** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To lift up or heave violently from below. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upheave/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Nahum, the earth heaves up when God comes, with mountains and hills shaking and melting. Interpretation: Tradition reads it as a picture of God's power over nature and of His power to judge the wicked.

### examples

- The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at His presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. (Prophets NAM.1.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upheave/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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