birth

«birth» in Mova's judaism dictionary: the time when a baby or young animal comes out of its… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (birth, births)

meaning for a pupil

1) Birth is the time when a baby or young animal comes out of its mother's body and starts living in the world. tree →

2) Birth is the beginning of something: the birth of a new nation. tree →

3) By birth means by the family or place you were born into: Irish by birth. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The time when a person is born, and also a family order, as in tribes named in order of birth. Job wishes he had died at birth, and a psalm says God has cared for the speaker since birth. Interpretation: The names of the tribes are engraved in order of birth on the priest's shoulder stones. The tradition reads the psalm as showing that God watches over a person from the very beginning of life. In the primary lessons: In science, pupils study life cycles: birth, growth, adulthood, reproduction, old age, death; mammals give birth to live young, while birds and reptiles lay eggs. In everyday life: date of birth on forms, birth certificates, birthdays (the day you were born, celebrated every year). In history, «the birth of» the internet or of a country. Phrases: give birth to, at birth, date of birth, birth certificate, birthplace, birth weight.

examples

• six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth. (Torah EXO.28.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• Four vowels n"2'BX, which are five vowels, that gave birth to twenty-seven consonants. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Why did I not perish at birth? (Writings JOB.3.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light. (Writings JOB.3.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• Upon Thee I have been cast from my birth; Thou art my God from my mother's womb. (Writings PSA.22.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• The cow gave birth to a calf last night. tree →
• Mammals give birth to live babies. tree →
• Write your date of birth on the form. tree →
• My baby sister weighed 3 kilograms at birth. tree →
• We watched the birth of the lambs on the farm. tree →
• The town is his birthplace. tree →
• The story tells the birth of a new kingdom. tree →
• ‘Of noble birth!’ said the Darning-needle; ‘no indeed, but proud! tree →

note

Usually uncountable for the event («at birth»), countable for counting («many births»). Homophone: «berth» (a bed on a ship or train, or a place for a ship in a harbour) sounds the same. «Give birth to» — not «born to» for the mother: «She gave birth to twins»; «The twins were born.»

In the corpora

• Upon Thee I have been cast from my birth; Thou art my God from my mother's womb.
• Why did I not perish at birth?
• Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
• A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
• The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «birth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.