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# sorrel

noun

«sorrel» 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

Zechariah's vision has horses of several colors, which are messengers sent through the earth.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the colors as standing for different events in the world, and the horsemen as angels reporting to God.

### Meaning

A reddish-brown color, used especially of horses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sorrel/#m1)

### Examples

- I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white. (Prophets ZEC.1.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sorrel/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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