beard
part of speech
noun (a beard, beards); verb (beard someone — old, to face boldly, rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) A beard is the hair that grows on the chin and cheeks of a man. tree →
2) A beard is also hairs or bristles like that on some animals, like a goat's beard, or on plants like barley. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Hair on the chin. The Torah forbids shaving the corners of it. A beard was a sign of a man's dignity, so having it cut off or shaved was a shame and a sign of mourning. Interpretation: The rabbis read the ban on marring the corners as forbidding the use of a razor, and many men leave their beards untouched. Scissors or an electric shaver are treated differently by different authorities. When David's messengers had half their beards cut off, the king let them stay away until the beards grew back, and Jeremiah pictures clipped beards as a sign of grief. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and descriptions of people: a long beard, a grey beard, to grow or shave a beard. In science: beards grow on men as they become adults (puberty). In stories wizards, kings, pirates and Father Christmas often have long beards (Blackbeard).
examples
- And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard, (Torah LEV.13.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. (Torah LEV.19.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. (Torah LEV.21.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.' (Prophets 2SA.10.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. (Prophets JER.48.37, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Joab said to Amasa: 'Is it well with thee, my brother?' And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. (Prophets 2SA.20.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Grandpa has a long white beard. tree →
- My dad shaved off his beard. tree →
- The billy goat had a little beard. tree →
- The wizard stroked his beard and thought. tree →
- Father Christmas has a big white beard. tree →
- Uncle Tom is growing a beard for charity. tree →
- Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he exclaimed: tree →
note
Countable: a beard, beards. Adjective: bearded. Pronounced like «beerd» (rhymes with «weird»), not like «bird». Hair above the lip only is a moustache (mustache in the US).
In the corpora
- And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,
- Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
- And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'
- For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
- And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.