scouring

verb (-ing form of scour)

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

Everyday

Scouring means rubbing hard to make clean and shiny. tree →
Scouring means searching all over a place for someone or something. tree →

In the lessons

in tales, the work of cleaning pots or tubs, or of sending soldiers to search the land

Examples

Dick was scouring the pots in the kitchen. tree →
The king set his soldiers scouring the country. tree →
We are scouring the beach for shells. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

Sweeping or flooding through a place, as an overwhelming scourge does in Isaiah.

Interpretation. Isaiah's "scouring scourge" is read as the coming invasion that will wipe out false security.

Examples

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it, (Prophets ISA.28.18, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «scouring» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«scouring» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «scouring» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«scouring» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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