oversee

«oversee» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To watch over and direct work or workers; to supervise — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To watch over and direct work or workers; to supervise. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Chronicles, Levites oversee the Temple work and Solomon appoints overseers of the laborers building the Temple. Interpretation: Tradition sees the building and running of the Temple as holy work, done in an orderly way by many people.

examples

• Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges; (Writings 1CH.23.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. (Writings 2CH.2.1, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

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