molten

«molten» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Melted by great heat, about metal, rock or glass: molten… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Melted by great heat, about metal, rock or glass: molten lava. tree →

2) (cooking, informal) Soft and runny in the middle: a molten chocolate cake. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means made by melting metal and pouring it into a mold. A "molten god" or "molten image" is an idol cast from metal. It can also mean simply melted, as when metal is melted out of stone. Interpretation: The Torah forbids making idols of any kind. The golden calf, made at Horeb, is the best-known molten image, and the psalms and the prophets, such as Isaiah, mock idols as useless. In Job it describes ordinary metal-working. In the primary lessons: In science lessons about volcanoes and the Earth: «molten rock» under the ground is magma, and when it comes out it is lava. In design and technology, molten metal is poured into moulds. In cooking, a «molten» pudding is gooey inside. Phrases: molten rock, molten lava, molten metal.

examples

• Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. (Torah EXO.34.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. (Torah LEV.19.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. (Torah DEU.27.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image. (Writings PSA.106.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing? (Prophets ISA.44.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass is molten out of the stone. (Writings JOB.28.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• Molten rock pours out of a volcano. tree →
• The Earth's outer core is made of molten iron. tree →
• Molten metal is poured into a mould. tree →
• The glassblower shaped the molten glass. tree →
• Be careful — molten wax is very hot! tree →
• The pudding had a molten chocolate centre. tree →
• Molten lava glowed red in the dark. tree →
• Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pour down boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should he approach. tree →

note

Used for things that melt at very high temperatures (rock, metal, glass). For ice or butter, say «melted»: «melted butter», not «molten butter» (except in cooking jokes). «Molten» is an old form of «melted».

In the corpora

• Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
• Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
• Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
• Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
• They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.

Trees and pragmatics

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