enemy
part of speech
noun (an enemy, enemies)
meaning for a pupil
1) An enemy is a person who hates you or wants to harm you, or someone you fight against. tree →
2) The enemy is the army or country fighting against your side in a war. tree →
3) An enemy is anything that harms something: Frost is the enemy of flowers. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means a foe of Israel or of God. The Torah promises that God will drive out enemies before His people. Interpretation: Tradition says God fights for Israel when it keeps the covenant. Commentators also teach that one's inner urges can be an enemy to master. In the primary lessons: In stories and history, heroes face enemies and armies fight enemies in wars. In nature lessons, predators are the natural enemies of their prey. In feelings lessons, pupils learn ways to turn enemies into friends. Phrases: make enemies, natural enemy, enemy forces, worst enemy.
examples
- I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.' (Torah NUM.23.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. (Torah DEU.6.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. (Torah DEU.32.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever? (Writings PSA.74.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? (Writings PSA.13.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?' (Writings PSA.42.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- The knight fought his enemy bravely. tree →
- Cats are the natural enemies of mice. tree →
- The enemy army came over the hill. tree →
- Try not to make enemies at school. tree →
- The two kings were enemies for many years. tree →
- Batman and the Joker are enemies. tree →
- Laziness is the enemy of success. tree →
- Suddenly the enemy came in sight. tree →
note
Plural: enemies (y changes to ies). Use an: an enemy. Opposite: friend, ally. Adjective: hostile; noun: enmity. Archenemy means the main enemy.
In the corpora
- Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, Thy right hand, O LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy.
- If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose — for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies —
- And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
- And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «enemy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.