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# delve

verb

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

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it is used in the Song of the Well, where the nobles dug the well with their staffs.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the well as a gift that followed Israel in the wilderness. The song shows the people working together with their leaders.

### Meaning

To dig into the ground. It is an old word, now used mostly for searching deeply into something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delve/#m1)

### Examples

- The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves. (Torah NUM.21.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/delve/#x1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

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