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# overspread

«overspread» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to spread over the whole of it so that it is covered** — 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 (overspread, overspreads, overspreading)

### meaning for a pupil

To overspread something is to spread over the whole of it so that it is covered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used of Noah's sons, from whom the whole earth was filled with people, and of an eye with a film over it. Interpretation: Tradition reads the first as all humanity descending from Noah. The eye blemish is one of the defects that kept a priest from serving in the Temple. In the primary lessons: in stories the sea or the sky is overspread with waves, clouds or foam

### examples

- These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread. (Torah GEN.9.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x1)
- or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; (Torah LEV.21.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x2)
- This time the sea was overspread with curling waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x3)
- Clouds overspread the sky before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x4)
- Frost overspread the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.236/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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