fig
part of speech
noun (fig, figs); abbreviation (fig. = figure)
meaning for a pupil
1) A soft, sweet fruit with many tiny seeds inside, shaped like a small pear. tree →
2) The tree that this fruit grows on. tree →
3) (Bible) The fig tree appears in many Bible stories; Adam and Eve made clothes from fig leaves. tree →
4) (abbreviation) «Fig.» is short for «figure», a numbered picture or diagram in a book. tree →
5) (informal, old-fashioned) Something worth nothing: «I don't give a fig». tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah the fig is one of the seven good foods of the Land of Israel, and fig leaves were the first clothes of Adam and Eve. Interpretation: Tradition counts the fig among the seven species that the land is praised for. Some sages guessed that the forbidden fruit may have been a fig. In the primary lessons: In science and textbooks «Fig. 3» means look at picture number 3. In cooking and nature lessons it is a fruit, fresh or dried. In Bible stories Jesus told a parable about a fig tree. Phrases: fig tree, fig leaf, dried figs, see Fig. 2, not care a fig.
examples
- a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles. (Torah GEN.3.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a pole between two; they took also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. — (Torah NUM.13.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us. (Prophets JDG.9.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders. (Writings PSA.105.33, JPS 1917) tree →
- The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance. (Writings SNG.2.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- We ate fresh figs on holiday in Greece. tree →
- The fig tree in the garden gives lots of fruit. tree →
- Look at Fig. 4 to see the parts of a flower. tree →
- In the Bible, Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves. tree →
- Dried figs are sweet and chewy. tree →
- He doesn't care a fig about football. tree →
- And here are sweet sauce, honey, raisins, green peas, and dry figs. tree →
note
Plural: figs. «Fig.» with a full stop is an abbreviation of «figure» and is read aloud as «figure». A «fig leaf» can also mean something used to hide an embarrassing fact.
In the corpora
- a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
- And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us.
- He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.
- Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
- The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fig» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.