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# vermilion

«vermilion» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A bright red colour or paint** — 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

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A bright red colour or paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vermilion/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is used for painting walls with red, as pictures of Chaldeans in Ezekiel or the fine house of Jehoiakim in Jeremiah. Interpretation: Jeremiah criticizes the king for building a fancy house by injustice, and the tradition reads this as a warning against wealth gained unfairly.

### examples

- 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/V/vermilion/#x1)
- That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. (Prophets JER.22.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vermilion/#x2)

### note

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

### 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 «vermilion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vermilion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.