dearth

«dearth» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (plural dearths)

meaning for a pupil

A dearth is a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something, such as food. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A time without enough food, a famine. In Nehemiah poor people had to mortgage their fields to buy grain. Interpretation: Nehemiah's story is read as a lesson in fairness to the poor, since he demanded that the rich return what they had taken. In the primary lessons: in the tales, a dearth is a famine or a time when there is too little food or too few people to choose from

examples

• Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.' (Writings NEH.5.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• There was a dearth of rain that summer and the crops failed. tree →
• Our town had a dearth of doctors. tree →
• In the dearth of bread, the family grew hungry. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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