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# distil

«distil» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To let fall in tiny drops, or to make something pure by…** — 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 let fall in tiny drops, or to make something pure by heating and cooling it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distil/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Moses' song it means that his teaching will fall gently like dew. Interpretation: Tradition reads the picture as Torah that refreshes and gives life, like rain on young grass.

### examples

- My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb. (Torah DEU.32.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distil/#x1)
- For He draweth away the drops of water, which distil rain from His vapour; (Writings JOB.36.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distil/#x2)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [For He draweth away the drops of water, which distil rain from His vapour;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.967/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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