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# blain

«blain» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A sore swelling on the skin, like a boil or blister** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A sore swelling on the skin, like a boil or blister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/blain/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: One of the plagues of Egypt, the boils that broke out on people and animals. Interpretation: It is the sixth plague; the rabbis note that Moses threw ashes from the furnace, and the magicians could not stand before him.

### examples

- And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. (Torah EXO.9.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/blain/#x1)
- And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.' (Torah EXO.9.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/blain/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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