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# overspread

verb (overspread, overspreads, overspreading)

«overspread» 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

Used of Noah's sons, from whom the whole earth was filled with people, and of an eye with a film over it.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the first as all humanity descending from Noah. The eye blemish is one of the defects that kept a priest from serving in the Temple. In the primary lessons: in stories the sea or the sky is overspread with waves, clouds or foam

### Meaning

To overspread something is to spread over the whole of it so that it is covered. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#m1)

### Examples

- These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread. (Torah GEN.9.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x1)
- or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; (Torah LEV.21.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x2)
- This time the sea was overspread with curling waves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x3)
- Clouds overspread the sky before the storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x4)
- Frost overspread the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/overspread/#x5)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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