supplanter
noun
In Jewish tradition
The word is linked with Jacob, whose name suggests "heel" and "one who supplants". Here it means enemies who lie in wait.
Interpretation. Tradition reads Jacob's name both as a shame and as a sign of a struggle that later turned into the name Israel.
Meaning
A person who trips up or pushes aside another to take his place, often by trickery. tree →
Examples
- Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my supplanters compasseth me about, (Writings PSA.49.6, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «supplanter» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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