discomfit

verb

«discomfit» 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

In the Torah, God throws the enemies of Israel into panic and defeat.

Interpretation. The tradition reads these verses as showing that victory comes from God's hand and not from Israel's strength alone.

To defeat someone, or to throw them into confusion and make them unable to fight. tree →

Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to discomfit them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. (Torah DEU.2.15, JPS 1917) tree →
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. (Torah DEU.7.23, JPS 1917) tree →
I will send My terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. (Torah EXO.23.27, JPS 1917) tree →
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them. (Writings PSA.144.6, JPS 1917) tree →
And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did discomfit them with all manner of adversity. (Writings 2CH.15.6, JPS 1917) tree →
because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast pur, that is, the lot, to discomfit them, and to destroy them; (Writings EST.9.24, JPS 1917) tree →

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