carve
part of speech
verb (carve, carves, carved, carving)
meaning for a pupil
1) To carve is to cut wood, stone, ice or another hard material carefully to make a shape or pattern. tree →
2) To carve meat is to cut cooked meat into slices. tree →
3) To carve words or a picture into something is to cut them into its surface. tree →
4) To carve out something (a place, a career) is to make it for yourself with effort. tree →
5) Rivers and glaciers carve valleys by wearing away rock. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah God "carves" and "hews" the letters and thereby makes the world. The tradition reads creation as made through the letters of speech, as if cut into the stuff of the world. In the Temple the cedar walls and doors were carved with cherubim, palm-trees and flowers, and the psalm mourns enemies striking down the carved work. In the primary lessons: In art and design lessons, pupils carve soap, clay or pumpkins at Halloween. In geography, rivers carve valleys and canyons, like the Grand Canyon carved by the Colorado River. In history, early people carved tools and pictures. In everyday life, an adult carves the roast or turkey. Phrases: «carve a pumpkin», «carve the turkey», «carved in stone» (can never change), «carve out».
examples
- In these versions, God simply חָקַק chaqaq 'carved', with no object expressed overtly. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- He carved them, hewed them, exchanged them, and formed with them the stars in the World and days in the Year and gates in the Person. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- And Wind is the first of them. [1:11] Three—He carved Water from Wind and with them He hewed tohu and bohu, [note 21: [Genesis 1:2]] mud and clay. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers. (Writings PSA.74.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work. (Prophets 1KI.6.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen. (Prophets 1KI.6.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- We carved faces into pumpkins for Halloween. tree →
- Grandpa carved a little bird from wood. tree →
- Dad carved the turkey at Thanksgiving. tree →
- Someone carved their name into the tree. tree →
- The river carved a deep valley over millions of years. tree →
- The statue was carved from marble. tree →
- She carved out a place for herself in the team. tree →
- Only adults should use sharp carving knives. tree →
- She saw the new altar with the painted pictures and the carved angels. tree →
note
Past: carved. Noun: carving (a carving = a carved object). Person: carver. Safety: children carving should use child-safe tools and have an adult help. «Carved in stone» means fixed and unchangeable.
In the corpora
- And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
- And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
- And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is a woodblock print, so many copies were made from the carved blocks.
- In Whitby in England, people once carved snake heads on ammonites and sold them as snakes turned to stone.
Trees and pragmatics
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