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# overflowing

«overflowing» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A flood or spill of water over its edges; a flowing over** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A flood or spill of water over its edges; a flowing over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overflowing/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Job, floods wash away the dust, as a picture of how hope can be worn away.

### examples

- The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man. (Writings JOB.14.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overflowing/#x1)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.360/)
- [Water from an overflowing bath can leak through the floor into the ceiling below and onto electrical wiring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/7/)
- [Water from an overflowing bath can soak through the floor and damage the ceiling below.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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