overflowing
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A flood or spill of water over its edges; a flowing over. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Job, floods wash away the dust, as a picture of how hope can be worn away.
examples
- The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man. (Writings JOB.14.19, JPS 1917) tree →
note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
In the corpora
- The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.
- Water from an overflowing bath can leak through the floor into the ceiling below and onto electrical wiring.
- Water from an overflowing bath can soak through the floor and damage the ceiling below.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «overflowing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.