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# bowlful

«bowlful» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **As much as a bowl can hold** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

As much as a bowl can hold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowlful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the story of Gideon, a bowlful of water wrung from the fleece is a sign from God. Interpretation: Gideon asks for the sign twice, and the dew on the fleece is read as a sign that God would save Israel through him.

### examples

- And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water. (Prophets JDG.6.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bowlful/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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