convulse
verb
In Jewish tradition
God makes Babylon's drunk revelers shake and then sleep forever.
Interpretation. Tradition reads this as a picture of Babylon's sudden fall in the midst of feasting.
Meaning
to shake violently tree →
Examples
- With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. (Prophets JER.51.39, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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