fuller

noun

«fuller» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

The fuller's field was outside Jerusalem, near the upper pool. Fuller's soap was a strong cleaning agent.

Interpretation. Malachi uses it with the refiner's fire for God's coming to purify the people. The tradition reads this as removing sin so the people can be clean.

Meaning

A person whose work is to clean and thicken cloth by washing and treading it. tree →

Examples

For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap; (Prophets MAL.3.2, JPS 1917) tree →
And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field. (Prophets ISA.36.2, JPS 1917) tree →
And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fullers' field. (Prophets 2KI.18.17, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

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