espousal

«espousal» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Betrothal, the promise to marry, or a wedding — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Betrothal, the promise to marry, or a wedding. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means the wedding day, when the bride and groom are joined. Interpretation: In the Song of Songs, tradition reads the king and bride as God and Israel. The "day of espousals" is then the giving of the Torah at Sinai.

examples

• Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. (Writings SNG.3.11, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

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