constrained

verb

«constrained» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Here it means the Shunammite woman pressed Elisha to eat with her, as kind hospitality.

Interpretation. Her welcome of the prophet is held up as a model of hospitality.

urged strongly or pressed someone to do something tree →

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. (Prophets 2KI.4.8, JPS 1917) tree →

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