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# tress

«tress» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a long lock or strand of hair, especially one that hangs…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tresses)

### meaning for a pupil

A tress is a long lock or strand of hair, especially one that hangs down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tress/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A lock of hair. In the Song of Songs the king is caught in the beloved's flowing hair, a picture of love. Interpretation: The Song is read as a picture of God's love for Israel. The king held captive in the tresses is read as God held by love for His people. In the primary lessons: in tales a princess or maiden has long tresses of hair; one tress is one lock

### examples

- Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof. (Writings SNG.7.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tress/#x1)
- She combed her long golden tresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tress/#x2)
- A tress of hair fell across her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tress/#x3)
- The girl cut off just one tress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tress/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; if a problem counts tresses, each tress counts as one.

### Trees and pragmatics

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