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# heavenward

«heavenward» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Toward the sky or heaven** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Toward the sky or heaven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heavenward/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Moses throws soot up toward the sky, and it becomes boils on the Egyptians. This is the sixth plague. Interpretation: Commentators note that Moses threw a handful of soot from the furnace, and that it spread as fine dust over all Egypt.

### examples

- And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh. (Torah EXO.9.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/heavenward/#x1)
- 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/H/heavenward/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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