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# vaunt

«vaunt» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To boast or brag proudly about something** — 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

### meaning for a pupil

To boast or brag proudly about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vaunt/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: God sends Gideon's army home so that Israel cannot boast that they won by their own strength. Interpretation: Commentators say God reduced the army to 300 men to show that victory comes from Him.

### examples

- And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying: mine own hand hath saved me. (Prophets JDG.7.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vaunt/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and the covetous vaunteth himself, though he contemn the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.120/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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