delve
verb
In Jewish tradition
In the Torah it is used in the Song of the Well, where the nobles dug the well with their staffs.
Interpretation. Tradition reads the well as a gift that followed Israel in the wilderness. The song shows the people working together with their leaders.
Meaning
To dig into the ground. It is an old word, now used mostly for searching deeply into something. tree →
Examples
- The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves. (Torah NUM.21.18, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «delve» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «delve» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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