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# distil

verb

«distil» 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 Moses' song it means that his teaching will fall gently like dew.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the picture as Torah that refreshes and gives life, like rain on young grass.

### Meaning

To let fall in tiny drops, or to make something pure by heating and cooling it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distil/#m1)

### Examples

- My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb. (Torah DEU.32.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distil/#x1)
- For He draweth away the drops of water, which distil rain from His vapour; (Writings JOB.36.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/distil/#x2)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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