sorrel
noun
In Jewish tradition
Zechariah's vision has horses of several colors, which are messengers sent through the earth.
Interpretation. Tradition reads the colors as standing for different events in the world, and the horsemen as angels reporting to God.
Meaning
A reddish-brown color, used especially of horses. tree →
Examples
- I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white. (Prophets ZEC.1.8, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «sorrel» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «sorrel» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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