cheapen
verb
In Jewish tradition
Interpretation: Jeremiah scolds Israel for treating its loyalty to God lightly by running after other nations. Tradition reads this as a warning against abandoning one's covenant for foreign allies.
Meaning
To make something less valuable, or to treat it as of little worth. tree →
Examples
- How greatly dost thou cheapen thyself to change thy way? (Prophets JER.2.36, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «cheapen» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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