desolate
part of speech
adjective (no comparative in use)
meaning for a pupil
1) Desolate means empty and bare, with no people or life. tree →
2) Desolate means sad and lonely, feeling that nothing is good. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A land left desolate is empty because the people were sent away. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as the land getting back its sabbath years, which Israel had failed to keep. The land rests while the people are in exile. In the primary lessons: in tales, a lonely place, or a heart left alone and unhappy.
examples
- As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest; even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. (Torah LEV.26.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. (Torah EXO.23.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then shall the land be paid her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and repay her sabbaths. (Torah LEV.26.34, JPS 1917) tree →
- Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents. (Writings PSA.69.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein. (Writings JOB.3.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. (Writings LAM.5.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- The desolate house stood at the end of the lane. tree →
- The moor was cold and desolate. tree →
- After her friends left, she felt desolate. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- For thus saith the LORD: The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
- Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
- Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate?
- And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted treacherously, saith the Lord GOD.'
- And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Trees and pragmatics
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