sorrel

«sorrel» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A reddish-brown color, used especially of horses — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A reddish-brown color, used especially of horses. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Zechariah's vision has horses of several colors, which are messengers sent through the earth. Interpretation: Tradition reads the colors as standing for different events in the world, and the horsemen as angels reporting to God.

examples

• I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white. (Prophets ZEC.1.8, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

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