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# flay

verb (flays, flayed, flaying)

«flay» 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 flay an animal is to strip the skin off it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#m1)
2. (old use, cruel) To flay a person is to punish them by stripping off their skin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#m2)

### In the lessons

in old tales, a cruel punishment, or the work of skinning a calf after it is killed

### Examples

- Let him be flayed alive, or burnt at a slow fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#x1)
- What you smell so must be the calf which I have just now killed and flayed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

The priest or offerer skinned the burnt-offering before cutting it into pieces for the altar.

**Interpretation.** The law says the hide of a burnt-offering goes to the priest. The careful steps show that sacrifice was done in a set order.

### Examples

- And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces. (Torah LEV.1.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/flay/#x1)
- And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood, which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. (Writings 2CH.35.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/flay/#x2)
- Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones; yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. (Prophets MIC.3.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/flay/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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