vermilion
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A bright red colour or paint. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is used for painting walls with red, as pictures of Chaldeans in Ezekiel or the fine house of Jehoiakim in Jeremiah. Interpretation: Jeremiah criticizes the king for building a fancy house by injustice, and the tradition reads this as a warning against wealth gained unfairly.
examples
- And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, (Prophets EZK.23.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. (Prophets JER.22.14, JPS 1917) tree →
note
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In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «vermilion» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.