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# portrayed

«portrayed» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **was painted, drawn or described in a certain way; it is…** — 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 form (from portray: portrays, portrayed, portraying)

### meaning for a pupil

Portrayed means was painted, drawn or described in a certain way; it is the past form of portray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/portrayed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Ezekiel uses it for figures drawn or carved on a wall, such as Chaldean men in red paint and idols of creeping things. Interpretation: Ezekiel's portrayed images are read as a picture of Israel's idolatry, which the prophet warns against. In the primary lessons: a tale shows a character as good, wise or wicked

### examples

- SY 2:1, 3:1, so it is interesting that in this verse the tongue is rather portrayed as one of two binary poles. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/portrayed/#x1)
- And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, (Prophets EZK.23.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/portrayed/#x2)
- So I went in and saw; and behold every detestable form of creeping things and beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. (Prophets EZK.8.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/portrayed/#x3)
- The wizard is portrayed as wise and kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/portrayed/#x4)
- The painting portrayed a horse in a green field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/portrayed/#x5)
- In the tale the witch is portrayed as cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/portrayed/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.585/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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