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# horseleech

«horseleech» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A large leech, a worm-like creature that sucks blood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A large leech, a worm-like creature that sucks blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horseleech/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Proverbs the leech's two daughters crying "Give, give" show greed that is never satisfied. Tradition reads it as a warning about endless wanting.

### examples

- The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough': (Writings PRO.30.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horseleech/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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