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# billow

«billow» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a big rolling wave of the sea** — 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

noun (billows); verb (billow, billows, billowed, billowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A billow is a big rolling wave of the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#m1)

2) To billow is to swell out and rise like a wave, as cloth does in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The psalmist and Jonah use waves as a picture of overwhelming trouble. Tradition reads Jonah's prayer from the sea as turning to God when all seems lost. In the primary lessons: in tales the sea rolls in great billows; a sail or cloak billows in the wind

### examples

- Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me. (Writings PSA.42.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#x1)
- For Thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all Thy waves and Thy billows passed over me. (Prophets JON.2.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#x2)
- The sea rolled in great billows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#x3)
- Her cloak billowed behind her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#x4)
- Pray for those lost beyond the foaming billows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.697/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «billow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.