bind
part of speech
verb (bind, binds, bound, binding); noun (a bind — informal)
meaning for a pupil
1) To tie something tightly with string, rope or cloth. tree →
2) To hold things together or make people feel close and united. tree →
3) To make someone keep a promise or obey a rule or law. tree →
4) To fix the pages of a book together inside a cover. tree →
5) (noun, informal) A difficult situation; "in a bind" means in trouble. tree →
6) (noun, UK informal) A boring or annoying task ("What a bind!"). tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To tie the words of God on the hand as a sign, which the tradition takes literally; also to tie up money, fasten garments, or tie up an animal. Job uses it for taming wild animals, and Isaiah uses "bind up" for keeping God's teaching safe by tying and sealing it. Interpretation: Tradition reads "bind them for a sign upon thy hand" as the commandment of tefillin, boxes with Torah verses worn on the arm and head. Isaiah's "bind up the testimony" is read as keeping the teaching safe among the disciples. In the primary lessons: Used in stories (tie the prisoner's hands), first aid (bind a wound), science (flour and egg bind the mix), law and promises (bound by the rules). Phrases: in a bind, bind together, bound by, bound book.
examples
- And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. (Torah DEU.6.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose. (Torah DEU.14.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires on them; and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute; and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. (Torah EXO.29.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? (Writings JOB.40.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.' (Prophets ISA.8.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- The pirates bound his hands with rope. tree →
- Bind the wound with a clean bandage. tree →
- The egg will bind the ingredients together. tree →
- Friendship binds the class together. tree →
- We are bound by the rules of the game. tree →
- Our class poems were bound into a book. tree →
- I'm in a bit of a bind: I forgot my homework. tree →
- Washing up every night is such a bind. (UK informal) tree →
- Take him home and bind his wounds. tree →
note
Irregular: bind, bound, bound (not "binded"). "Bound" also means "certain" (it's bound to rain) and "going to" (bound for London). Noun: binding (book cover); adjective binding (a binding promise must be kept).
In the corpora
- And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
- And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
- 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'
- None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; thou hast no healing medicines.
- Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Trees and pragmatics
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