benumbed
part of speech
adjective (from benumb: benumb, benumbs, benumbed, benumbing)
meaning for a pupil
Made numb, so that a person cannot feel or move properly, usually from cold. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The psalmist describes illness and sorrow so deep that he is numb. Tradition reads such psalms as prayers that a suffering person can say to God. In the primary lessons: a cold traveller who sits still and cannot feel his hands or feet
examples
- I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart. (Writings PSA.38.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- His fingers were benumbed with cold. tree →
- He sat still, benumbed and cold, in the snow. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
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