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# scouring

verb (-ing form of scour)

«scouring» 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. Scouring means rubbing hard to make clean and shiny. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#m1)
2. Scouring means searching all over a place for someone or something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, the work of cleaning pots or tubs, or of sending soldiers to search the land

### Examples

- Dick was scouring the pots in the kitchen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#x1)
- The king set his soldiers scouring the country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#x2)
- We are scouring the beach for shells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Sweeping or flooding through a place, as an overwhelming scourge does in Isaiah.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah's "scouring scourge" is read as the coming invasion that will wipe out false security.

### Examples

- And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it, (Prophets ISA.28.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/scouring/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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