divine
part of speech
adjective (divine, more divine); verb (divine, divines, divined, divining — to guess, to find water)
meaning for a pupil
1) (religion) Divine means of God or a god, or coming from God, as in "divine love" or "divine help". tree →
2) (informal) Divine means wonderful or delicious: "This cake is divine!" tree →
3) To divine is to guess or discover something by a feeling; water divining is looking for water underground with a stick. tree →
4) The divine is God, or the holy power that religious people believe in. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Genesis it means to learn hidden things by magic, as Joseph pretends to do with his cup, and in the Prophets diviners are rebuked and Saul removed those who divined by spirits. In Proverbs "a divine sentence" is a decision that seems to come from God. In Sefer Yetzirah it means coming from God, as in the divine names. Interpretation: Tradition treats the divine names, such as the four-letter name and Elohim, as showing different sides of God. The prophets teach that false divining is vain and that Israel should trust God. In the primary lessons: In RE, Christians speak of Jesus as both human and divine; Hindus speak of many forms of the divine. In everyday talk a grown-up might say a chocolate pudding is "simply divine". Science pupils may hear that water divining has not been shown to work in fair tests. Phrases: divine intervention, divine love, the divine, simply divine.
examples
- And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?' (Torah GEN.44.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- God ; the Divine name here is Jehovah. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- The Elohim — divine powers — not IHVH the Tetragrammaton, (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth trespasseth not in judgment. (Writings PRO.16.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Saul had put away those that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land. (Prophets 1SA.28.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- therefore ye shall no more see vanity, nor divine divinations; and I will deliver My people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.' (Prophets EZK.13.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- Christians believe Jesus is divine. tree →
- The hymn praised God's divine love. tree →
- "Your soup is divine!" said Aunty Pat. tree →
- Some people say the rescue was divine intervention. tree →
- She divined from his face that something was wrong. tree →
- Water divining hasn't been proved by scientific tests. tree →
- False faith may escape human punishment, but cannot escape the divine. tree →
note
Adverb divinely; noun divinity (also RE in some schools). "Divine" as "delicious" is a bit posh and old-fashioned. Say "dih-VINE".
In the corpora
- Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'
- And Saul had put away those that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land.
- A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth trespasseth not in judgment.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «divine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.