overspread

In Jewish tradition

Used of Noah's sons, from whom the whole earth was filled with people, and of an eye with a film over it.

Interpretation. Tradition reads the first as all humanity descending from Noah. The eye blemish is one of the defects that kept a priest from serving in the Temple. In the primary lessons: in stories the sea or the sky is overspread with waves, clouds or foam

Meaning

To overspread something is to spread over the whole of it so that it is covered. tree →

Examples

• These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread. (Torah GEN.9.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; (Torah LEV.21.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• This time the sea was overspread with curling waves. tree →
• Clouds overspread the sky before the storm. tree →
• Frost overspread the window. tree →

Note

nothing for maths