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# sorrel

«sorrel» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A reddish-brown color, used especially of horses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A reddish-brown color, used especially of horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sorrel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Zechariah's vision has horses of several colors, which are messengers sent through the earth. Interpretation: Tradition reads the colors as standing for different events in the world, and the horsemen as angels reporting to God.

### examples

- I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white. (Prophets ZEC.1.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sorrel/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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