rounding
noun
In Jewish tradition
It is a word of beauty in the Song of Songs, where the lover praises the beloved.
Interpretation. Tradition reads the Song of Songs as a love song between God and Israel, so such images describe Israel's beauty in God's eyes.
Meaning
A rounded curve of the body, here the smooth curve of the thighs. tree →
Examples
- The roundings of thy thighs are like the links of a chain, the work of the hands of a skilled workman. (Writings SNG.7.2, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «rounding» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «rounding» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/rounding/