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# billow

noun (billows); verb (billow, billows, billowed, billowing)

«billow» 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

1. A billow is a big rolling wave of the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billow/#m1)
2. To billow is to swell out and rise like a wave, as cloth does in the wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billow/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales the sea rolls in great billows; a sail or cloak billows in the wind

### Examples

- The sea rolled in great billows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billow/#x1)
- Her cloak billowed behind her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billow/#x2)
- Pray for those lost beyond the foaming billows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billow/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: The psalmist and Jonah use waves as a picture of overwhelming trouble. Tradition reads Jonah's prayer from the sea as turning to God when all seems lost. In the primary lessons: in tales the sea rolls in great billows; a sail or cloak billows in the wind

### Examples

- Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me. (Writings PSA.42.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#x1)
- For Thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all Thy waves and Thy billows passed over me. (Prophets JON.2.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «billow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«billow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/billow.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «billow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/billow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«billow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/billow.html) on Mova free.