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# delve

«delve» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To dig into the ground** — 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

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To dig into the ground. It is an old word, now used mostly for searching deeply into something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delve/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it is used in the Song of the Well, where the nobles dug the well with their staffs. Interpretation: Tradition reads the well as a gift that followed Israel in the wilderness. The song shows the people working together with their leaders.

### examples

- The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves. (Torah NUM.21.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delve/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.773/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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