overspread

«overspread» in Mova's judaism dictionary: to spread over the whole of it so that it is covered — 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

verb (overspread, overspreads, overspreading)

meaning for a pupil

To overspread something is to spread over the whole of it so that it is covered. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used of Noah's sons, from whom the whole earth was filled with people, and of an eye with a film over it. Interpretation: Tradition reads the first as all humanity descending from Noah. The eye blemish is one of the defects that kept a priest from serving in the Temple. In the primary lessons: in stories the sea or the sky is overspread with waves, clouds or foam

examples

• These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread. (Torah GEN.9.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; (Torah LEV.21.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• This time the sea was overspread with curling waves. tree →
• Clouds overspread the sky before the storm. tree →
• Frost overspread the window. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread.

Trees and pragmatics

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