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# daub

verb (daub, daubs, daubed, daubing); noun (a daub)

«daub» 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. To daub is to smear something thick and sticky, such as paint, mud or clay, over a surface, often roughly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#m1)
2. A daub is a rough, messy smear of paint or clay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#m2)

### In the lessons

in the tales, something is smeared roughly with blood, mud or clay; in art a «daub» is a painting done carelessly

### Examples

- The children daubed paint all over the paper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x1)
- The walls were daubed with mud. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x2)
- The cradle was overturned and daubed with blood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x3)
- Her picture was just a brown daub. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x4)
- Mix the clay and daub it on the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daub/#x5)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Moses' mother daubed his basket of bulrushes with slime and pitch so that it would float. Ezekiel uses it for false prophets who daub a weak wall with whitewash to hide its faults.

**Interpretation.** The tradition reads Moses' mother's act as a mother's care, which saved the future leader. The word for the basket, teva, is the same as Noah's ark. Ezekiel's daubing is read as a picture of false comfort, saying "peace" when there is none.

### Examples

- And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Torah EXO.2.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/daub/#x1)
- and, lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you: Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? (Prophets EZK.13.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/daub/#x2)
- And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing falsehood, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. (Prophets EZK.22.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/daub/#x3)
- Because, even because they have led My people astray, saying: Peace, and there is no peace; and when it buildeth up a slight wall, behold, they daub it with whited plaster; (Prophets EZK.13.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/daub/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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