scouring
part of speech
verb (-ing form of scour)
meaning for a pupil
1) Scouring means rubbing hard to make clean and shiny. tree →
2) Scouring means searching all over a place for someone or something. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Sweeping or flooding through a place, as an overwhelming scourge does in Isaiah. Interpretation: Isaiah's "scouring scourge" is read as the coming invasion that will wipe out false security. In the primary lessons: in tales, the work of cleaning pots or tubs, or of sending soldiers to search the land
examples
- And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it, (Prophets ISA.28.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- Dick was scouring the pots in the kitchen. tree →
- The king set his soldiers scouring the country. tree →
- We are scouring the beach for shells. tree →
note
nothing for maths
Trees and pragmatics
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