billow

«billow» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a big rolling wave of the sea — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (billows); verb (billow, billows, billowed, billowing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A billow is a big rolling wave of the sea. tree →

2) To billow is to swell out and rise like a wave, as cloth does in the wind. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The psalmist and Jonah use waves as a picture of overwhelming trouble. Tradition reads Jonah's prayer from the sea as turning to God when all seems lost. In the primary lessons: in tales the sea rolls in great billows; a sail or cloak billows in the wind

examples

• Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me. (Writings PSA.42.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• For Thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all Thy waves and Thy billows passed over me. (Prophets JON.2.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• The sea rolled in great billows. tree →
• Her cloak billowed behind her. tree →
• Pray for those lost beyond the foaming billows. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «billow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.