craunch
verb
In Jewish tradition
Ezekiel says Jerusalem will drink the cup of wrath, drain it, and gnaw the broken pieces.
Interpretation. The cup is a common picture of God's judgment. The image of gnawing the pieces shows the full, bitter result of sin.
Meaning
An old word meaning to crunch or chew noisily. tree →
Examples
- Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Prophets EZK.23.34, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «craunch» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «craunch» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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