appertain
verb
In Jewish tradition
Used for the people and goods that belonged to Korah and went down with him when the earth swallowed them.
Interpretation. Tradition reads this as showing that those who joined Korah's rebellion shared his fate.
Meaning
To belong to someone or be connected with them. tree →
Examples
- And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. (Torah NUM.16.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. (Torah NUM.16.33, JPS 1917) tree →
- And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, for them that appertained to the throne of the governor beyond the River. (Writings NEH.3.7, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «appertain» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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